Our November speaker, Leon Reed presented “Gettysburg Monuments, the Stories the Veterans Told, the Artists Who Made Them, … and a Quick Look at the Civil War Monuments Around the Keystone State”.
Reed spoke about and showed examples of the regimental monuments at Gettysburg which were primarily erected around the time of the battle’s 25th anniversary. He said that the soldiers thought that this was their one chance to tell future generations what was on their minds.
He touched on the Civil War monuments of Antietam, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and around the state of Pennsylvania.
Reed is a retired US Senate aide, defense consultant, and US History teacher. He lives in Gettysburg with his wife Lois. He spends much of his time writing, mainly military history. He has written three books on Gettysburg monuments and three World War II soldier memoirs.
As always, we held a book raffle and the winners were not only those pictured below, but our preservation efforts.
