Thomas R. Flagel is associate professor of history at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee. The author of several books, Flagel has also worked with multiple historic preservation groups including the Civil War Trust and the National Park Service. A national speaker on war and memory, he also works in oral history, helping preserve the stories of those who are otherwise forgotten or erased from public discourse.
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Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle. This reunion drew over fifty-five thousand official attendees who descended upon a town of four thousand during the summer of 1913 with the promise of little m... SEE MORE