Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 the Focus of Civil War Round Table Program

The Tuscarawas Valley Civil War Round Table will meet on Thursday, November 14 at 6:30 PM in the Community Room of the Dover Public Library, located at 525 N. Walnut Street in Dover. The featured presenter will be John L. Hopkins who will present on his book, The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913.

The largest gathering of Union and Confederate veterans ever held was front-page news throughout the country. But as the years passed, the memorable event was all but forgotten. John Hopkins’s The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 goes a long way toward making sure the world will remember.

Hopkins fills his marvelous account with detail from the letters, diaries, and published accounts of Union and Confederate veterans, the extensive archival records of the reunion’s organizers, and the daily stories filed by the scores of reporters who covered it. The World Will Never See the Like offers the first full story of this extraordinary event’s genesis and planning, the obstacles overcome on the way to making it a reality, its place in the larger narrative of sectional reunion and reconciliation, and the individual stories of the veterans who attended.