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The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle [3]: 72 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees [4] out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war. [5]
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
3.8 American Civil War (1861–1865) 3.9 Korean Expedition (1871) ... This is an incomplete list of the last surviving veterans of American wars.
After the war ended, we could not do enough for our veterans. The GI Bill ensured that post-WWI problems would not be repeated. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, respect for veterans reached an ...
Capt. Lewis Reed is believed to have been Rockland's longest-serving Civil War veteran, with four years and four months of service. He died at age 83 in 1925.
Fighting Fascism: The Americans – Women and Men – Who Fought In the Spanish Civil War (Democracy Now! show, aired April 30, 2007) FBI monograph: Summary Memorandum on The Veterans of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade 1937 – 1948; McArdle, Joe. The Spanish Civil War and the Pacific Northwest, Great Depression in Washington State Project.
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army, Union Navy and the Marines who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in the Midwest and reached 30,000 members by 1878.
In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th US Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms fired musket volleys and the crowd sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”