Documentaries of U.S. Civil War Veterans were filmed in the 1920s and the 1930s, as new reporters and historians took an interest in recording the stories of the last surviving veterans.
A reunion of Confederate and Union soldiers was held fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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