Handshake over the stone wall, July 3, 1938. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

In 1938, at the last great reunion of the Blue and the Gray at Gettysburg, a small group of veterans from Virginia and Pennsylvania met near the "Angle". As cameras rolled and clicked, the old gentlemen shook hands over the stone wall where General Hays' Division stood on July 3, 1863. Though it is unknown whether any of these veterans were actually present during the fighting at the Angle, this particular photograph was used to publicize the event and illustrate the last meeting of the two associations that had met at the Angle up to 1913. By 1938, there were barely a handful of veterans surviving from either army, who had actually been at Gettysburg seventy five years before.

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