Wool pennant with red field bordered with blue and gray stripe.  The red center features tarnished/faded gold stenciling of an eagle over “1913” and “SOUVENIR”. Some fading to background colors; wear to edges, particularly to the left edge when held vertically.

In the middle of the pennant a printed paper label is attached.  This shield-shaped label reads, “50^TH ANNIVERSARY / UNITED OUR BOYS / OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG”.  Images placed among that text are of soldiers shaking hands and the flags of the North and South. Pennant shows wear and fading, and some creasing.

Pennant is stapled to a piece of yellow cardboard at the larger end. Should be easily removable.

The 1913 Gettysburg reunion was an encampment of American Civil War veterans for the Battle of Gettysburg’s  50th anniversary. The June 29–July 4 gathering of 53,407 veterans (~8,750 Confederate) was the largest ever Civil War veteran reunion, and "never before in the world's history so great a number of men so advanced in years been assembled under field conditions".  All honorably discharged veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans were invited, and veterans from 46 of the 48 states attended.  Despite concerns "that there might be unpleasant differences between the blue and gray” the peaceful reunion was repeatedly marked by events of Union–Confederate camaraderie.  President Woodrow Wilson 's July 4 reunion address summarized the spirit: "We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten—except that we shall not forget the splendid valor."   [ld/jet] [PH:L]

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