Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
10-7-2016
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
In Special Collections here at Gettysburg College is a compilation of letters by Civil War officers responding to an invitation to attend the very first reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg. The reunion was initiated by David McConaughy–a lawyer in Adams County, PA who had organized a group of local men to fight for the Union during the war–and was meant to be a time for the officers who had fought here to come together and walk the battlefield. On this walk, they would point out the locations their troops had occupied during the fight so that McConaughy and his committee could put up markers. When I saw this collection, I knew I had to dig in.
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Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Ortman, Olivia J., "All For Honor: Officer Responses to the McConaughy Letters" (2016). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 173.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/173
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.