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Vice Pres't & Mrs. Marshall - Gettysburg (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• BobMeade said:

  Vice President Marshall arrived at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 3, 1913 for the purpose of addressing the assembled Civil War Veterans at the 50th Anniversary commemorationso of the Battle of Gettysburg (battle ran from July 1 to July 3 1863 See this report from the New Yrok Times of the next day, July 4, 1913: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F01E0DD153FE6...

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks lifeasdaddy for the link to the NYTimes article and for connecting the photographs from this group that were taken at the same event at Gettysburg. We'll fill in the caption information next time we update this record.

• BobMeade said:

  There are a bunch of other photographs in the Bain Collection related to this event, although not yet uploaded to Flickr. Most of them are consistent with the newspaper description of the event, such as the tented encampment etcetera. You can find them by searching for "gettysburg" in the Bain Collection at the LOC. This link should work for the search page: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ggbainquery.html

• Wystan said:

  During a debate in the U. S. Senate, Thomas Riley Marshall coined the immortal phrase, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar." (As Vice President, he presided over the Senate.)

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Riley_Marshall