A conservative Christian guy with a politically incorrect sense of humor. If what I write makes me laugh I've done my job. Smile and be a Pleasant Goat!
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@20th_Centurygal His name is my name too
And whenever we go out (out)
The people always shout (shout)
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
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πΊπΈ 1913 Gettysburg 50th Grand Reunion. How big really was it? I've got the numbers.
280 acres large with 6,592 tents.
47 Miles of Streets. Yes, that's correct. The camp featured a massive grid of gravel roads making up 47 miles of avenues, illuminated at night by hundreds of electric streetlights.
A huge main pavilion tent, the "Great Tent," measuring 200 feet by 450 feet. It was packed with exactly 13,000 individual chairs for assemblies and speeches.
57,198 total residents. 53,407 veterans alongside thousands of medical staff, cooks, and personnel.
2,170 kitchen staff operated 170 field kitchens.
1 million gallons of water daily. The state engineered a massive temporary plumbing system, drilling deep artesian wells to pump safe water to 32 custom "bubbling ice water fountains" chilled by underground copper coils and ice blocks.
3,476 toilet seats in 90 public latrine complexes.
The military built a special dedicated railway platform on the Round Top branch line so veterans could step directly off steam trains straight into the camp.
The tent city even had its own fully functioning, temporary U.S. Post Office, telegraph newsroom for 150 embedded journalists, and an emergency hospital.
It remains the largest, most logistically astounding peaceful encampment in American history.