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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...

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.

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

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.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Riley_Marshall

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!

Other Bain/LOC photos of the 50th Anniversary Reunion at Bloody Angle, Gettysburg:

Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863-1962), widow of General James Longstreet (they wed when she was 34 and he was...76); delegate to the Progressive Party convention in 1912: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-881

Thanks for the information. It looks (after some rotating and flipping) as though the date on the negative is July 3, 1913. Mrs. Longstreet was apparently in the news just then over an interpretation of Civil War history: in the context of a Battle of Gettysburg commemoration, she quoted Gen. Sickles as saying that the famed charge at Gettysburg was Gen. Longstreet's, not Pickett's, though she noted that Longstreet was not in favor of the charge (NYT Archive: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801E0DD153FE633A25757C0A9619C946296D6CF).