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Love how they handle their weapons! Hands over the muzzle, rifle perched nonchalantly over the shoulder. Awesome.

The guy on the right looks like George Burns. I wounder.

The Great Reunion, Gettysburg, July 1913: www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/reunion13.htm

I guess beards were ok in the military back in those days. Neat photo, thanks for saving and posting these photographic histories.

These are veterans of a battle that took place 50 years earlier. Possibly the last time some of them shaved.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

..... "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Now 150 years after the Gettysberg Address. .

The Great Reunion, Gettysburg, July 1913: www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/sidebar/reunion13.htm

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

pennylrichards: Thanks. We'll add the reunion information to the descriptions for this group next time we update!

You have to wonder what sort of emotion these men felt standing side by side.