- Joined
- Feb 23, 2013
- Location
- East Texas
This time, neither a person nor persons nor a place, but a souvenir from a very important Civil War Centennial event, indeed! I have previously mentioned the June-July, 1961 trip made by my mother and myself to Gettysburg and then the reenactment of, as the program itself states, 1st Manassas (Bull Run). These were the "official" and expensive (probably $1) magazine-sized 64 page booklets in stiff glossy covers containing almost no advertising but full of articles by some of the premier Civil War authors of the time, as listed on the back cover; subjects included stories like Manassas - Little Town With the Big Name; Second Manassas (The Old Pros Gang Up); Wilmer McLean: He Would Study War No More; and Twilight, Victory, and Peace. I was all of fourteen when we went, too young to then participate, but memories of the spectacle stayed with me over the years until fifteen years later during the American Revolution Bicentennial I was able to begin reenacting myself! For additional full-page color photos used as illustrations in the program: https://civilwartalk.com/threads/ar...dr-francis-lord-and-william-a-albaugh.142752/
Anyone else having old Civil War-related photos or mementos you would like to share are encouraged to do so here!