1913 Gettysburg reunion
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The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was a Gettysburg Battlefield encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg's 50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion. All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended, all but Nevada and Wyoming.
Old soldiers of the North and South clasping hands over The Angle in fraternal affection
Panorama of the Great Camp on the Gettysburg Battlefield.
Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison addresses the audience in Great Tent
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".
The Angle
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The Angle is a Gettysburg Battlefield area which includes the 1863 Copse of Trees used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge, the 1892 monument that marks the high-water mark of the Confederacy, a rock wall, and several other Battle of Gettysburg monuments.
Plaque inscribed "General Armistead and a few Confederate soldiers charged across this wall, reached the Union cannon behind it and were soon overwhelmed"