PICTURE SHOWING THE VETERANS OF THE BLUE AND GRAY SHAKING HANDS OVER THE FAMOUS BLOODY ANGLE WHERE GENERAL PICKETT LOST 3,000 OUT OF 6,000 MEN ON HIS MEMORABLE CHARGE AT GBURG ~ VET AT RIGHT WEARS A 1913 VIRGINIA ARTILLERY (RED RIBBON) BADGE ~  THE UNION BOYS APPEAR TO BE 2ND CORPS, PART OF THE PHILADELPHIA BRIGADE..MEASURES 8 1/2" X 6 1/2" ~ A HECK OF AN IMAGE FROM THE 50TH ANNIV OF THE BATTLE ! A singular highlight of the reunion was the meeting of Pickett's Division Association and the Philadelphia Brigade Association near the High Water Mark on July 3, 1913. Despite the torrid heat, the veterans made speeches, traded ceremonial flags and shook hands over the stonewall that outlines the Angle where fifty years before, the two groups had met in mortal combat.

TERRIFIC PHOTO FROM THE 50TH ANNIV OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG ~ "RECALLING THE INCIDENTS OF THE ENGAGEMENT AT THE PEACH ORCHARD ON THE GETTYSBUR BATTLEGROUND ~ LEFT TO RIGHT: DR. J.R. EDWARE, 9TH ALABAMA; D.B. GENTRY, 9TH VIRGINIA (PICKETTS) AND CAPT. H.N. BLAKE, 11TH MASSACHUSETTS ~ MEASURES6 3/4" X 8 1/2" ~ GREAT PHOTO! 9th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Portsmouth, Virginia, in July, 1861. Its members were from Portsmouth and the counties of Roanoke, Chesterfield, Isle of Wight, Nansemond, Lunenburg, Dinwiddie, and Norfolk. The regiment served in the Department of Norfolk and in June, 1862, totalled 435 men. During the war it was attached to General Armistead's, Barton's, and Steuart's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought in many conflicts from Seven Pinesto Gettysburgand after serving in North Carolina participated in the Battle of Drewry's Bluff. Later the unit was involved in the Petersburgsiege north of the James River and the AppomattoxCampaign. It lost 9 killed, 34 wounded, and 23 missing of the 150 at Malvern Hill, and of the 318 engaged at Gettysburg more than half were disabled. The unit reported 47 casualties at Drewry's Bluff, and many captured at Five Forksand Sayler's Creek, and surrendered 2 officers and 37 men on April 9, 1865. Its field officers were Colonels David J. Godwin, James J. Phillips, and Francis H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels James S. Gilliam, John T.L. Preston, and William J. Richardson; and Majors Stapleton Crutchfield, Makr B. Hardin, and John C. Owens.

PHOTO IS 7" X 9" ON LARGER MOUNT ~ GROUP OF NEW YORK VETERANS AT DEVIL'S DEN FOR A GROUP PHOTOGRAPH WEARING THE BADGE FROM THE 1907 GENERAL GEORGE S. GREEN MONUMENT DEDICATION ~ VERY DISTINCT 3-PIECE DESIGN ~ I INITIALLY THOUGHT THIS WAS THE BADGE FROM THE SLOCUM DEDICATION, AS THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR ) 

GREAT LOOKING PHOTO WITH VETERANS OF COMPANY D, 1ST INFANTRY PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE VOLUNTEER CORPS ~ PAINTED DRUM READS "COMPNAY D 1ST INFT REGT. P.R.V.C. GETTYSBURG JULY 2ND 3RD 1863" ~ HOOD  READS "FIRE DEPT" ~ FIREMENS MONUMENT CENTERS THE CAR IN THE BACKGROUND ~ READING, PA. PHOTOGRAPHER ~ PHOTO IS 8" X 10" AND MOUNT 13.5" ~ Erected 1901.
 
Location. 40�� 20.108�� N, 75�� 54.94�� W. Marker is in Reading, Pennsylvania, in Berks County. Marker is at the intersection of Perkiomen Avenue (U.S. 422) and Penn Street, on the left when traveling east on Perkiomen Avenue. Click for map. Memorial is along the western boundary of City Park at the eastern terminus of Penn Street