hunterliggett

LOC -- this should be corrected to Liggett, not Leggett. Other Bain/LOC photos of General Hunter Liggett, commander of the 50th anniveresary encampment at Gettysburg: www.flickr.com/search/?q=leggett&w=8623220@N02

Wystan: Thank you for the correction. We'll correct our data for this and the other related photos.

Brigadier Gen Liggett on the left, Gen Wood on the right.

General Leonard Wood was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.

Lindley Garrison was Secretary of War in the first Woodrow Wilson cabinet, appointed in 1913 but resigning early in 1916 over differences with Wilson on military intervention in the Mexican revolution, and on U. S. preparedness and the question of a peacetime standing army. Garrison wanted a full U. S. military invasion of Mexico; Wilson did not. Photo dated 7-2-13.

Thanks for the additional information. We may add them to the record.

Photo dated 7-2-13, which indicates that these gentlemen were posed on the Gettysburg battlefield at the time of the 50th anniversary commemoration of the battle. Brigadier General Hunter Liggett, shown here, was commander in charge of the anniversary encampment. Another photo shows Gen. Liggett (name misspelled) at the Gettysburg commemoration: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3640756941/

Hunter Liggett (March 21, 1857– December 30, 1935) was a lieutenant general of the United States Army. His forty-two years of service spanned the period from the Indian campaigns to trench warfare. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Liggett