Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. At his lecture at the Civil War Institute last weekend he discussed the 1913 Gettysburg 50th Reunion. “This June 29-July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and two blankets, military fare.” Here is a podcast recording of the lecture from Addressing Gettysburg:
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