Union Blue and Confederate Gray veterans reunite at Gettysburg in the year 1913

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Standing by “the Bloody Angle” where Pickett’s charge took place 50 years earlier and over 3,000 soldiers on both sides lost their lives. Now they clasp hands over the stone wall as brothers.

'The Angle' refers to the area where 1500 Confederate Virginians broke through the Union line on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863 and an intense bloody battle followed.

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The tree behind them appears to be still standing there today, quite a bit taller - and the broken branch to the right seems to match - however this is my own assumption.

Today there is a monument marking the High-water mark of the Confederacy - the farthest point reached by Confederate forces during Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863.

Union Blue, The man on the far left behind is wearing the 1913 Gettysburg badge for Veterans from Massachusetts. The circular portrait on bottom depicts Abraham Lincoln.

Confederate Gray, the man on the right is wearing the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion badge - the circular portrait encased on the bottom of his badge is of Robert E. Lee.

A lone veteran on the stone wall looking out over the fields of Gettysburg.

The Confederate men seen on the right in the above photo are Pickett’s very own men, survivors of that day. This photo below of the reunion below shows Pickett's men in foreground; Union men lined against the wall.

Pickett’s men at the stone wall, it seems to have been a sweltering hot day.

Veterans arriving to Gettysburg

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