In this, the second installment of our “Civil War Veterans” series, we highlight more photos of former Union and Confederate soldiers made in the postwar years. (View Part 1 here. Unless otherwise noted, all images are courtesy of the Library of Congress.)
Dressed in his Civil War uniform, George Burlingame, veteran of the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, takes part in a parade held by the veterans’ organization Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in September 1915.
Veterans of the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry meet for a reunion at Gettysburg in 1885. The man wearing a bowtie standing next to a boy, at left, is identified as Medal of Honor recipient Mitchell Vanderslice; the boy is possibly his son.
Confederate veterans General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler and Lieutenant Bennett H. Young of the 8th Kentucky Cavalry sit on horseback at a United Confederate Veterans (UCV) reunion in Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1900.
An African-American veteran holds the American flag at a regimental reunion held in Norwich, New York, in May 1897.
Civil War veterans and their families at a reunion at Devil’s Den on the Gettysburg battlefield in 1904.
Veterans from Brooklyn Post No. 368 of Cleveland, Ohio, gather at the 49th Annual GAR Encampment at Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1915.
This stereoview shows veterans of the 4th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery at their unit’s monument during a Gettysburg battlefield reunion in 1888. Note the sign that reads “4th New York Battery Extends Greeting to the 1st Texas, 15th Georgia.”
Confederate veterans gather at Asheville, North Carolina, in September 1922.
A group of veterans stands around a Confederate flag at a UCV reunion in Ford City, Alabama, circa 1924.
A group of ex-Union officers, including former general Benjamin Prentiss (standing immediately right of tree), gather on the Shiloh battlefield in 1890. Prentiss is standing on the spot where he was captured at 5:30 p.m. on the Battle of Shiloh’s first day, April 6, 1862.
Union veterans in their GAR uniforms gather with members of the organization Daughters of Union Veterans at Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1938.
Black Civil War veterans gather at a GAR reunion in Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1910. (Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Virginia.)
Union veterans of GAR Post #278 from Hayesville, Ohio, meet circa 1910.
Civil War veterans of Bartholomew GAR Post #136 from Nunica, Michigan, gather sometime between 1896 and 1918. Medal of Honor recipient Henry E. Plant sits second from right in the front row.
Confederate veterans and their families gather at the 16th annual UCV reunion at Warrensburg, Missouri, in September 1912.
Confederate veterans of the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry gather at Chattanooga in 1913. The woman is the wife of a (possibly deceased) veteran.
Veterans of the 30th Pennsylvania Infantry are shown in a automobile in front of the Volunteer Firemen’s Monument in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the 1910s.
Unidentified Confederate veterans gather at a reunion in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1914.
Two Union veterans, members of General John Sedgwick GAR Post #17 of Santa Ana, California, stand guard in front of an altar to dead comrades, a woman in mourning attire and two girls holding flowers behind them. The image was likely made in the late 1800s.
Union and Confederate veterans greet one another at the reunion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913.
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