1913 Gettysburg reunion

[4][5] Despite official concerns "that there might be unpleasant differences, at least, between the blue and gray"[6] (as after England's War of the Roses and the French Revolution),[7] the peaceful reunion was characterized by instances of Union–Confederate camaraderie.[8] President Woodrow Wilson's July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: "We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valor.The site of the camp and the 8 acres (3.2 ha) for the Great Tent, west of the Codori House, were selected in 1912 and mapped by the Gettysburg National Park Commission.[16] The Pennsylvania Railroad added "a telephone line between Gettysburg and Hanover along the Western Maryland Railway, over which the Pennsy [would] operate a large number of trains during the battle anniversary".Water wells were being drilled for the July encampment by February 1, 1913,[15]: 7 and hotels in Hanover, Chambersburg, Hagerstown, and "the Blue Ridge section [were] filling rapidly" by June 26.[11]: '14 Companies A-D (14 officers and 285 men)[11] of the Fifteenth United States Cavalry arrived on June 26 to guard the battlefield,[11]: '13 camping west of Seminary Ridge on the Hagerstown Road.[18] Captain McCaskey of the Quartermasters Corps had estimated that 6,000 men might arrive on June 29, and temporarily struggled with shortages of food and supplies.W. B. Henry (a Southerner living in Philadelphia) uttered a "vile epithet" about President Abraham Lincoln and caused an argument at his table.[31] The Virginia governor spoke to officials on behalf of Henry, and his father (a Confederate major) posted bail for his son.

Many rows of white tents, seen from a distance — Panorama of the Great Camp on the Gettysburg Battlefield

A large crowd in a tent with many flags — Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison addresses the audience in the Great Tent

Veterans with flags — For the Webb-Pickett flag ceremony, two 1863 units advanced about 50 ft (15 m)—Union from the north, Confederate from the south—to flags at the Angle stone wall, where they "clasped hands and buried their faces on each other's shoulders". ^{[

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Woodrow Wilson with veterans, two of whom are holding flags — President Woodrow Wilson with veterans

Woodrow Wilson on a stage with many other people — Woodrow Wilson speaking to veterans in the Great Tent

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