Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 Special Guests at the 1913 Gettysburg 50th Reunion James Longstreet Whelchel (Left, 17) & George Edward Pickett III (Right, 19). Grandsons of the famous generals. Both would become U.S. Army officers. Whelchel graduated USMA in 1918 & served in WWII. Pickett volunteered for WWI & earned a wartime commission. He would also serve in WWII.

🇺🇸 1913 Gettysburg 50th Grand Reunion "Mine had a ramrod" An aging Civil War veteran handles a modern M1903 Springfield rifle held by a U.S. soldier.

🇺🇸 Special Guests at the 1913 Gettysburg 50th Reunion James Longstreet Whelchel (Left, 17) & George Edward Pickett III (Right, 19). Grandsons of the famous generals. Both would become U.S. Army officers. Whelchel graduated USMA in 1918 & served in WWII. Pickett volunteered for WWI & earned a wartime commission. He would also serve in WWII.

Speaking of famous horses, here is Gen. Robert E. Lee and Traveller. Even though many accounts claim this photo was taken in 1864 during the Petersburg campaign, historical evidence shows it was actually taken after the Civil War. Lee died in October 1870. Traveller outlived him by several months and was put down in 1871 after stepping on a nail and contracting tetanus.

🇺🇸 The 1913 Gettysburg 50th Reunion ended in the most beautiful way. When almost everyone had left the encampment, a few veterans from each side stayed behind. They were from the Signal Corps. They went out to the battlefield with their ‘talking flags’ and set up two ‘wigwag’ communication stations. One station was Union, on Little Round Top, and the other Confederate, on Seminary Ridge, about 2 miles away. Then, across the empty battlefield, they started talking to each other. First from Little Round Top, veteran Sgt. Charles Dewitt Marcy, of Boston, MA, wigwagged out Gen. Grant's words: “Let us have peace.” It brought cheers from those veterans present. On Seminary Ridge, veteran Lt. George C. Round, of Manassas, VA, responded with Gen. Lee’s declaration of “Duty, the sublimest word in our language.” Little Round Top responded back with “Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men.” Seminary Ridge sent back “Glory to God in the Highest.” Little Round Top responded with “America! All hail to Thee! Thanks be to God, who made us free!” And in a fitting end to the grandest reunion of them all, in a final message between Union and Confederate lines, Seminary Ridge ended it with “North, South, East, and West, hand clasped in hand, United, we the children stand.” Enemies no longer. Brothers at last.

🇺🇸 Joshua Chamberlain had a dog, and of course he gave it an epic name as well. Tiberius Caesar. He called him "Tibe" or "Caesar" for short. Tibe was an immense source of emotional support and a constant presence as Chamberlain battled his chronic pain from his Petersburg wound, especially in his later years. This photo was taken in 1911, just a few years before Joshua passed away.

🇺🇸 Joshua Chamberlain had three horses named Charlemagne during the war. The first two died in combat. The horse you see pictured is Charlemagne III. Gen. Chamberlains men pooled together $700 to buy this horse for him which was an incredible sum at the time. Charlemagne III was a chestnut Morgan horse. It witnessed the surrender at Appomattox. It was wounded in combat. Once in the neck at Lewis’s Farm, and potentially up to two more times per Chamberlains memoirs. Charlemagne I was purchased by Chamberlain himself in 1863 for $150. It was killed in action at the battle of Petersburg, shortly before his pelvis wound. There is not much information on Charlemagne II. It was shot out from under Chamberlain in the lead up to the Appomattox campaign most likely.