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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. .

Wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_U.S._population

According to the 1910 Census, Bloomington, Indiana, had become the new population center of the USA. Another Bain/LOC photo on this subject:

The man seated at left is Prof. Wilbur A. Cogshall of Indiana University, who on July 21, 1911, had pinpointed the precise location of the population center of the USA, according to the 1910 Census. Story in The New York Times, July 22, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A03E...

LIFE Magazine, October 15, 1951 (page 47), ran a photo that showed Prof. Cogshall in 1921, standing beside a beech tree near Spencer, Indiana, which had been inscribed with data of the population center's shift, as recorded in the 1920 Census: From Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=t1QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&lp...