The Old Soldiers Show: Stories from the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion

During the summer of 1913, more than 53,000 Civil War veterans descended on Gettysburg for the fiftieth anniversary of the great battle. Over the course of six days, the old soldiers told stories over campfires and mess tables, heard from speakers like President Woodrow Wilson, visited Devil’s Den and Little Round Top, and reenacted Pickett’s Charge. History remembers their reunion through black-and-white photographs of veterans charging across farm fields and shaking hands across the stone...