The first instance in history where survivors of a great battle met fifty years after and exchanged
friendly greetings at the place of actual combat. Here on July 21, 1911, the closing scene was
enacted, the tableau of the re-United States. The President, the governor of Virginia, and
forty-eight maidens in white took part with 1000 veterans of the blue and the gray and 10,000
citizens
of the new America.