Author: United States. War Department
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Category : Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Pennsylvania State Library
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Iowa. State Department of History and Archives
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: Thomas R. Flagel
Publisher: Kent State University
ISBN: 9781606353714
Category : Gettysburg Reunion, 1913
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29-July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and two blankets, military fare, and the presence of countless adversaries from a horrific war. Most were revisiting a time and place in their personal history that involved acute physical and emotional trauma. Contrary to popular belief, veterans were not motivated to attend by a desire for reconciliation, nor did the Great Reunion produce a general sense of a reunified country. The reconciliation premise, advanced by several major speeches at the anniversary, lived in rhetoric more than fact. Recent scholarship effectively dismantles this "Reconciliation of 1913" mythos, finding instead that sectionalism and lingering hostilities largely prevailed among veterans and civilians. Flagel examines how individual veterans viewed the reunion, what motivated them to attend, how they acted and reacted once they arrived, and whether these survivors found what they were personally seeking. While politicians and the press characterized the veterans as relics of a national crusade, Flagel focuses on four men who come to the reunion for different and very individual reasons. Flagel's book adds significantly to Gettysburg literature and to Civil War historiography.

Author: New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: United States. War Department
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Languages : en
Pages : 1294

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Author: Grand Army of the Republic
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956.

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Iowa. State Dept. of History and Archives
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Author: US Army Military History Institute
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Category : Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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