Women, Wounded, Prisoners And Beans , Blue And Gray At Gettysburg Remembers

JPK Huson 1863

Brev. Brig. Gen'l
Joined
Feb 14, 2012
Location
Central Pennsylvania
The very best Union and Confederate ' Gettysburg ' stories were caught by reporters astute enough to understand 1913's Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania was not some token gathering of old guys stuffed into faded uniforms, wheezing about long-ago gore and glory. Most newspapers ran an obligatory story " Gettysburg Veterans Reunited "- then a battle recap, maybe something heart-tugging on once young men revisiting youth's battlefield. The lucky newspapers had reporters who got on the train.

Fulton Postcards still beats LoC, Newspapers dot com and You Name It dot com ( made that up ). Searches tougher, worth it. For instance- never saw a photograph of one of Gettysburg's nurses before who traveled to the reunion.

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How cool is that?

Mrs. Longstreet! and Sickles

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In the book written just post war about Ginnie Wade, these girls are spoken of- Ginnie ( then- Ginnie- a newspaper reporter renamed Gettysburg citizen Ginnie "Mary Virginia" Wade, ' Jennie " Wade ) was to have been amongst them welcoming troops. She was busy elsewhere- can't remember if it was the disabled child Isaac she and her mother cared for or her sister's baby.


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Did not know Key had been to the 1913 event!


Some reporter had this fabulous notion- compare the mess tent of 1913 with what the soldiers may have eaten in 1863. Very cool.

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These stories are what the country wanted from the reunion- did not see a lot of papers printing them.

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So funny! An entire battle, the Thornes were able to stay focused on the honey of 50 years ago.

Quite a bit more, not bothering with battle-recaps in this thread unless a veteran has a good story.
 
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