july31913

This was on July 3, 1913 and the occasion was the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. See related note at adjacent photograph in series here: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3641564726/in/p...

Thanks lifeasdaddy, for your link to the NYTimes article (in the adjacent photo) about the event. It's a great read. We'll fill in the caption information and add the date next time we update this record.

LOC -- Bain misspelled Gen. Liggett's name. This is Brigadier General Hunter Liggett, president of the Army War College, who was commander of the Gettysburg encampment during the 1913 reunion. Fort Hunter Liggett in California was named for him. He would have been 56 when this picture was taken. Wikipedia entry for Hunter Liggett: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Liggett

Other Bain/LOC photos of Gen. Liggett (his name misspelled as Leggett) at the Gettysburg 50th anniversary commemoration: www.flickr.com/search/?q=leggett&w=8623220@N02

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).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Riley_Marshall