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The 1938 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans on the Gettysburg Battlefield for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The gathering included approximately 25 veterans of the battle〔 with a further 1,359 Federal and 486 Confederate attendees out of the 8,000 living veterans of the war.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/gettysburg/h.htm )〕 The veterans averaged 94 years of age, Transportation, quarters, and subsistence was federally funded for each veteran and their accompanying attendant.〔NOTE: The following news article's numbers for reservations are ''italicized'' in the table: 〕 If an attendant was needed it was provided. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's July 3 reunion address preceded the unveiling of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial; a newsreel with part of the address was included in the Westinghouse Time Capsule for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The reunion's support personnel included 19 officers and 250 enlisted men of the Pennsylvania National Guard, and there were 3,185 United States Army personnel in total. A "regular army camp" that displayed modern weapons was east of the northward tracks of the Reading Railroad to the Gettysburg College buildings,〔 while the Third Corps headquarters tent was south of Gettysburg near The Angle. There were 548 police; from the Pennsylvania State Police and officers from New York City, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh;〔 and a Gettysburg College building〔 was the "base hospital"〔 under the First Regular Army Medical Regiment. ==Chronology== *1935: Pennsylvania created a commission for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg *1936: The House Military Affairs Committee recommended the Haines Bill for forming a federal committee to work with the Pennsylvania reunion commission. *1937 January 25: State senator John S. Rice, chairman of the Pennsylvania reunion commission, sponsored a bill for the commission to develop a memorial to be dedicated at the 1938 reunion, with a "Gettysburg Peace Memorial Fund" for an observation deck above the Big Round Top summit and a flame 30 feet higher (the abandoned 1910 plan was for a 1913 cornerstone at The Angle.) *1937 February 6: The first joint meeting of the federal and Pennsylvania state commissions.〔 *1937 May 8: The Pennsylvania reunion commission's headquarters at the Hotel Gettysburg annex began selling the "Gettysburg commemorative half dollars" for $1.65; the hotel and two Gettysburg banks also sold the coins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1938 Gettysburg reunion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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