Billy Yank and Johnny Reb met again, fifty years after the Union victory at Gettysburg:
“The conductor raised his baton and the strains of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ floated out upon the air. All of those gathered upon the dusky lawn – the Picketts, the Longstreets, the daughter of General A.P. Hill, the Meades, the long row of men in gray and gold – became silent, rose to their feet, and uncovered. That was Gettysburg fifty years afterward.”
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