Editing Battle of Gettysburg (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Alfred_Waud_by_Timothy_H._O%27Sullivan.jpg|thumb|[[Alfred Waud]], a correspondent from London who was dispatched to cover the Civil War, sketching the Battle of Gettysburg for ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' in July 1863<ref>{{cite web |title=[Gettysburg, Pa. Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, sketching on battlefield]|url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018666306/ |website=Library of Congress |year=1863 |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-date=May 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522205010/https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018666306/ |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
[[File:Gettysburg Centenial 1963-5c.jpg|thumb|A [[United States Postal Service|U.S. postal]] stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, issued in 1963]]
At the [[1913 Gettysburg reunion|50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion (1913)]], 50,000 veterans attended according to a 1938 Army Medical report.<ref name="ArmyMedical">Army Medical Bulletin, No. 46 (Oct. 1938), "Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg, Pa, June 29 - July 6, 1938." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405001010/http://cdm15290.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15290coll6/id/535/rec/12/] p. 29-38 (OCoLC) 01778648.</ref> Historian Carol Reardon writes that attendance included at least 35,000 Union veterans and though estimates of attendees ran as high as 56,000, only a few more than 7,000 Confederate veterans, most from Virginia and North Carolina, attended.<ref>Reardon, p. 188.</ref> Some veterans re-enacted Pickett's Charge in a spirit of reconciliation, a meeting that carried great emotional force for both sides. There was a ceremonial mass hand-shake across a stone wall on Cemetery Ridge.<ref>Reardon, p. 176.</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Beitler | first1 = Lewis E.| title = Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg: Report of the Pennsylvania Commission| location = Harrisburg, PA | publisher = Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer| page = 168| date = 1913| oclc = 475369 }}</ref>

At the [[1938 Gettysburg reunion|75th anniversary Gettysburg reunion (1938)]], 1,333 Union veterans and 479 Confederate veterans attended.<ref name="ArmyMedical"/><ref>Reardon, p. 202, rounds up the number to 1,800.</ref>

Film records survive of two Gettysburg reunions, held on the battlefield, in 1913,<ref>1913 reunion film clips: {{cite web| title = Gettysburg reunion 1913 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hA0XKhcJ0| website = You Tube: Ken Hendricksen | date = May 17, 2020 | access-date = February 19, 2023}}</ref> and 1938.<ref>1938 reunion sound film clips:{{cite web | title = Rare Motion Pictures Show Civil War Veterans at the 75th Gettysburg Battle Anniversary Reunion | url = https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2009/02/rare-motion-pictures-show-civil-war-veterans-75th-gettysburg-battle-anniversary | website = National Park Traveler | date = February 11, 2009 | access-date = February 19, 2023}}</ref>
{{See also|Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps|Civil War on postage stamps}}
During the [[Civil War Centennial]], the [[United States Postal Service|U.S. Post Office]] issued [[:File:Civil War centennial issues.jpg|five postage stamps]] commemorating the 100th anniversaries of famous battles. The [[American Civil War Centennial]] was the official United States commemoration of the [[American Civil War]]. Commemoration activities began in 1957, four years before the 100th anniversary of the [[Battle of Fort Sumter|war's first battle]], and ended in 1965 with the 100th anniversary of the [[Battle of Appomattox Court House|surrender at Appomattox]]. The United States Civil War Centennial Commission and state commissions were established to organize the commemorations. The [[National Park Service]], and other federal agencies that controlled key Civil War battlefields, used the Centennial to successfully lobby Congress for increased funding to re-landscape and interpret these battlefields for the general public. The Post Office issued a series of noncontroversial [[commemorative stamp]]s to mark the centennial.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Cook | first1 = Robert J.| title = Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961–1965| location = Baton Rouge, LA | publisher = Louisiana State University Press| page = | date = 2007| isbn = 978-0-8071-3227-2}}</ref>

The children's novel ''[[Window of Time]]'' (1991), by Karen Weinberg, tells the story of a boy transported by time travel from the 1980s to the Battle of Gettysburg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-09-01-9113009092-story.html|title=Window of Time is window of opportunity for author|last=Baublitz|first=Ellie|date=1991-09-01|website=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref>

The Battle of Gettysburg was depicted in the 1993 film ''[[Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]'', based on [[Michael Shaara]]'s 1974 novel ''[[The Killer Angels]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gettysburg (1993) |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420333/gettysburg |website=Turner Classic Movies |year=2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419093125/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/420333/Gettysburg/ |access-date=18 February 2023|url-status=live |archive-date=April 19, 2019 }}</ref> The film and novel focused primarily on the actions of [[Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]], John Buford, Robert E. Lee, and James Longstreet during the battle. The first day focused on Buford's cavalry defense, the second day on Chamberlain's defense at [[Little Round Top]], and the third day on Pickett's Charge.