july1913

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. .

I remember reading about how surprised the event organizers were by the youthful appetites of the veterans at one of the reunions (I can't remember if it was the 1913 or 1938 reunion or both), they were good eaters. At one of the events, they drank all the whiskey provided twice over. In a live radio interview from '38, one veteran being questioned went off on the following tangent: (from memory) "I want to talk about women's skirts. They are too short. Why, when I was at the sporting house last week ... " (cut off by interviewer).

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!

I'm an Admin for a group called The Mess Tent, and we'd love to have this photo added to the group!

The water was supplied to the taps on the left from two towers and a pump, as seen in this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3953328574/