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Gettysburg 75th Anniversary Reunion Told in Remembrance
The article previews a nationwide reunion of Blue and Gray veterans at Gettysburg June 29 to July 4 with 8,000 veterans invited and $275,000 in federal funds for transport and housing. It recalls Pickett’s Charge, heroism at Devil’s Den and Barlow’s Knoll, and personal memories of Josephine Miller and Jennie Wade, highlighting memorials and the Torch of Freedom.
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Union
Overton H. Mennet
Los Angeles
Grand Army of the Republic
James M. Claypool
St. Louis
United Confederate Veterans
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Uncle Sam
Congress
Roosevelt
George Meade
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Tony
George Pickett
Barlow’s Knoll
Channing Barlow
New York
John B. Gordon
Georgia
Barlow
Gordon
New Yorker
McClellan House
Massachusetts
Josephine _ Miller
Emmetsburg
Colonel Baldwin
Josephine Miller
First Massachusetts
Jennie Wade
Pickett