American Veterans At Gettysburg 1938

Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

This photo was taken at a reunion of American veterans of the War Between The States (American Civil War) 1861-1865 at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 3, 1938 showing Confederate and Union veterans shaking hands across the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge at the Gettysburg National Battlefield -- 75 years after the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863).