| 1938 Gettysburg reunion | |
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| Gettysburg College & Gettysburg National Military Park in United States | |
 North of the veterans' camp, the Eternal Light Peace Memorial was unveiled during the reunion. | |
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| Coordinates | 39°50′22″N 77°14′12″W / 39.8395°N 77.2366°W |
| Site history | |
| In use | June 29-July 6[1] ceremonies & events: June 1–4 [2] |
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The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle[3]: 72 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees[4] out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war.[5] The veterans averaged 94 years of age.[6] Transportation, quarters, and subsistence was federally funded for each veteran and their accompanying attendant.[7] If an attendant was needed it was provided.[1][8] President Franklin D. Roosevelt's July 3 reunion address preceded the unveiling of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial; a newsreel with part of the address was included in the Westinghouse Time Capsule for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
The reunion's support personnel included 19 officers and 250 enlisted men of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and there were 3,185 United States Army personnel in total.[9] A "regular army camp" that displayed modern weapons was east of the northward tracks of the Reading Railroad to the Gettysburg College buildings,[3]: 64–5 while the Third Corps headquarters tent was south of Gettysburg near The Angle.[10] There were 548 police; from the Pennsylvania State Police and officers from New York City, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh;[9] and a Gettysburg College building[11] was the "base hospital"[12] under the First Regular Army Medical Regiment.[13]
- ^ a b "Gettysburg Celebration to be Attended by 3,500 Vets". The Daily Times. June 11, 1938. Retrieved February 8, 2011.
- ^ "Blue and Gray Reunion". Schenectady Gazette. June 14, 1938. Retrieved November 26, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Anniversary Reunions of Civil War Veterans". GSA.gov. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ "Veterans Reunion At Gettysburg Closes Monday". Eugene Register-Guard. July 5, 1938. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ NOTE: The following news article's numbers for reservations are italicized in the table: "TWO VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR CLASP HANDS". St. Petersburg Times. June 28, 1938. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ "Blue and Gray Meet". The Cambridge City Tribune. July 14, 1938. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ a b "Here and There: ...four-star peak of Big Things that came to Gettysburg..." Gettysburg Times. Times and News Publishing Company. April 21, 1944. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- ^ "Woodring, Earle speak At Veterans' Reunion". Reading Eagle. July 1, 1938. Retrieved February 10, 2011.
the headquarter's tent of Major General James K. Parsons, of the Third Corps area, pitched within easy pistol shot of that bloody angle where Pickett's men notched the extreme advance of the battle.
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StarandSentinelwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Gettysburg's Last Reunion Days End". The Pittsburgh Press. July 5, 1938. Retrieved February 8, 2011.