Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2019
Department 1
Interdisciplinary Studies
Department 2
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
Marching in the Gettysburg Liberty Parade in May 1918 was a drum corps consisting entirely of Civil War veterans. As local citizens demonstrated their patriotism—notably with the Kaiser hanging in effigy—the old soldiers helped keep the pace for two thousand citizens who turned out to vigorously support the Great War. It was no doubt a moving moment, the nation's largest veteran demographic encouraging and supporting the next generation of soldiers to fight for cause and country in a very different war waged on a very different continent. Though fifty years separated the trenches of Petersburg from those of the western front, for one moment, the men who fought in the nation's bloodiest war marched alongside doughboys who were training, on a battlefield of that war, to fight in France.
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ISBN/ISSN
2159-9807
Version
Version of Record
Recommended Citation
Isherwood, Ian. “When the Hurlyburly's Done / When the Battle's Lost and Won: Service, Suffering, and Survival of Civil War and Great War Veterans.” The Journal of the Civil War Era 9, no. 1 (2019): 109-132.
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