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War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
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, ad...
No North, No South...
The story of the 1913 Battle of Gettysburg Reunion, which was the largest reunion of Civil War veterans ever held. More than 54,000 of them returned to the battlefield to remember their fallen comrades and put the past behind them. Featuring more than 100 photographs from the reunion.
The World Will Never See the Like
The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. “[It] will be talked about and written about as long as the American people boast of the dauntless courage of Gettysburg,” declared a woman who accompanied her father to the reunion. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins’s The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long way toward making sure the world will remember. The 1913 Gettysburg reunion is a story of 53,000 old comrades and former foes reunited, and of the tension, even half a century later, between competing narratives of reconciliation and rememb...
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Gettysburg, 1913
A USA Today bestseller from the author of The First Christmas of the War and its sequels: July 1-3, 1863: The famed Battle of Gettysburg turns the tide of the Civil War, but not before approximately 50,000 soldiers from both sides become casualties during those three terrible days of carnage. June 29-July 4, 1913: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg, more than 50,000 Civil War veterans ranging in age from 61 to more than 100 years old converge on the scene of that titanic battle half a century earlier in an occasion of healing that was known as the Great Reunion. Abraham Lincoln had incorrectly surmised in his famed Gettysburg Address that "the world will little n...
Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett's Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then, is it Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--and not, for example, Richardson's Charge at Antietam or Humphreys's Assault at Fredericksburg--that looms so large in the popular imagination? As this innovative study reveals, by examining the events of 3 July 1863 through the selective and evocative lens of 'memory' we can learn much about why Pickett's Charge endures so strongly in the Ame...
Remembering the Civil War
Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
Echoes of Remembrance
Memories can be wonderful celebrations or terrible realities. Over fifty thousand veterans, from North and South, gathered at Gettysburg in July 1913. The Great Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion was a singular event. For the old soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans, it was a time to rekindle old memories. But for Jimmy Valentine, of the 149th New York Volunteer Infantry, the memories are ones he would rather not revisit. He still lives with the pain of lost friends and a shattered romance that brought him to the army. His journey back to Gettysburg reopens memories of those events that took him to the terrible three days. The memories have aroused his hatred of the Rebels and his own guilt for what transpired. Can he resolve unfinished business? Or will the memories hold him captive forever?
