Drinking glass made of a dark green glass that meas. approx. 4.00 inches high and 3.00 inches across the top. There is a fine line of gold decorating the lip while one side has “N. P. G. ENCAMPMENT GETTYSBURG 1902.” This lettering is done in gold and has gently faded a bit.

This glass commemorates the 1902 encampment of the National Guard of Pennsylvania at Gettysburg. Planned as "Camp Lawton" Army quartermasters erected the installation's buildings by July 2, 1902, which included headquarters at “The Angle,” the National Guard commissary along the Round Top Branch, the telegraph and telephone office at the "junction of the steam and electric roads near the Codori buildings", the Governor's Troop between the Hagerstown Road and Chambersburg Pike, and U.S. Army troops camped near the Reynolds equestrian statue on McPherson Ridge. On July 11 Fort Myer's United States Cavalry and Artillery arrived to camp at Reynolds Avenue on McPherson Ridge.

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