{"id":32,"date":"2010-02-02T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:17:54","slug":"75th-heroes-of-gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/02\/02\/75th-heroes-of-gettysburg\/","title":{"rendered":"1938- Memorial Day, Gettysburg Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ncc\/images\/Comrades3_1938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" title=\"comrades3\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/02\/comrades3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/02\/comrades3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/files\/2010\/02\/comrades3-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a> <strong><em>Click on the Image to the right for a larger version.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeroes of battle of Gettysburg paid tribute by surviving brothers-in-arms. Washington, D.C., May 30, Although there are only a few of the boys in blue and gray left, two of them were strong enough today, Memorial Day, to drop flowers from the air on the Gettysburg battlefield to honor their comrades who lost their lives in this historic battle of the Civil War. Here we see, left to right: William H. Jackson, 95, of Washington, D.C., 5\/30\/38\u201d &#8211; <strong>Text from Library of Congress Metadata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to an article in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, the two veterans were unable to drop the flowers over Gettysburg \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/ncc\/newspaper\/1938_05_31_4CivilWarVeterans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Don Sailer<br \/>\nImage Credit &#8211; Harris &amp; Ewing Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division<br \/>\nNewspaper Citation Washington (DC) <em>Post<\/em>, May 31, 1938, p. X13.<br \/>\nNewspaper Credit Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the Image to the right for a larger version. \u201cHeroes of battle of Gettysburg paid tribute by surviving brothers-in-arms. Washington, D.C., May 30, Although there are only a few of the boys in blue and gray left, two of them were strong enough today, Memorial Day, to drop flowers from the air on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8652,3975],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compromising-for-union","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015","tag-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}