1935: Pennsylvania created a commission for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg[19]
1936: The House Military Affairs Committee recommended theHaines Bill for forming a federal committee to work with the Pennsylvania reunion commission.[20]
1937 January 25: State senatorJohn S. Rice, chairman of the Pennsylvania reunion commission, sponsored a bill for the commission to develop a memorial to be dedicated at the 1938 reunion, with a "Gettysburg Peace Memorial Fund" for anobservation deck 75 ft (23 m) above theBig Round Top summit and a flame 30 feet higher[21] (theabandoned 1910 plan was for a 1913 cornerstone atThe Angle.)
1937 February 6: The first joint meeting of the federal and Pennsylvania state commissions.[21]
1937 May 8: The Pennsylvania reunion commission's headquarters at the Hotel Gettysburg annex began selling the "Gettysburg commemorative half dollars" for $1.65; the hotel and two Gettysburg banks also sold the coins.[14]
July 1, Friday (Reunion Day): Opening ceremonies in theGettysburg College Stadium[31] were in the morning and included an address by Secretary of WarHarry Hines Woodring, chairman of the United States Commission.
July 2, Saturday (Veterans' and Governors' Day)
- The 3-mile-long parade[32] for2+1⁄2 hours was between the reviewing stand in the college stadium and the intersection of the Baltimore Pike and the Emmitsburg Road, through the Lincoln Square; and included three groups: distinguished visitors first, followed by U. S. Army units and equipment, and more than 50 drum and bugle corps.[33] - AMarine Corps Band concert was held in the Gettysburg College stadium (the only remaining Jewish Civil War veteran, Daniel Harris, was a guest on the platform).[34]
July 3, Sunday (President's Day)
- Sunday morning memorial service in college stadium[12] - Veterans shook hands across the stone wall at The Angle as during the1913 Gettysburg reunion.[4] - Attendance for theEternal Light Peace Memorial dedication was 250,000 (100,000 were "stuck on automobile-packed highways".)[35] - As Roosevelt's 9 minute address ended at sunset, the Peace Memorial covered by a 50-foot (15 m) flag[11] was unveiled by George N. Lockwood and Confederate A. G. Harris (both age 91)[36] with 2 regular army attendants.[34] - Army aircraft staged a simulated air raid on Gettysburg[37] at dusk, and searchlights were directed from the ground at the planes while they dropped flares.[38]
p. 64 NOTE: The overhead camp image shows tents south of Howard Av and west of the Biglerville Rd beyond the Mummasburg Rd to the formerReading Railroad line which extended northward from the rail "+" intersection (bottom left of photo) before the northward railway was moved westward circa 1939 when theRound Top Branch was removed.
p. 75 NOTE: The image of tanks side-by side has the 1888 Glatfelter Hall behind at a distance and an angle which places the tanks to the southwest, nearly on the current location of a portion of Constitution Av.
^abNOTE: The following news article's numbers for reservations areitalicized in the table:"TWO VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR CLASP HANDS".St. Petersburg Times. June 28, 1938. RetrievedFebruary 9, 2011.
^"Blue and Gray Meet".The Cambridge City Tribune. July 14, 1938. RetrievedFebruary 9, 2011.
^"Woodring, Earle speak At Veterans' Reunion".Reading Eagle. July 1, 1938. RetrievedFebruary 10, 2011.the headquarter's tent of Major General James K. Parsons, of the Third Corps area, pitched within easy pistol shot ofthat bloody angle where Pickett's men notched the extreme advance of the battle.
^ab"Here and There with the Vets"(Google News Archive).Star and Sentinel. July 9, 1938. RetrievedFebruary 12, 2011.The following veterans and attendants attended the anniversary fromLong Beach. ... Hammaker, 94, left the Warner hospital today for the base hospital
NOTE: The "stadium" identity is unclear, asa Gettysburg College tribute page states the dedication game ofMemorial Stadium was the14-12 Bucknell upset in 1928.Archived 2016-03-04 at theWayback Machine Butthe College's embellished sports page forClark Field has the contradictory claim it was "erected in 1938 in a ceremony attended by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt." However, the herein references clearly identify the contradiction that Roosevelt, on the planned stopover en route fromHyde Park NY to theWhite House, traveled to and from the 1938 Oak Hill dedication directly by motorcade from/to his special train for the 9 minute reunion address. Moreover, the claim that the stadium was "erected in ... a ceremony attended by ... Roosevelt" is dubious since the stands, press box, and other depicted stadium structures required more than the time of a "ceremony" to be erected (and reunion facilities were in place before Roosevelt arrived). Although Roosevelt, whose train was near the extension of West Lincoln Av, may have passed near the construction; a source is needed to identify if the President alsoattended a ceremony at (unfinished?)Clark Field. (In 1918, the college'sNixon Field had been used forCamp Colt athletics.)
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