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the hosts did not count on Black Confederates attending the meeting and had no place to put them but the White Confederates made room for their Southern brothers. Black Union veterans also attended this event.

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It is written that the hosts did not count on Black Confederates attending the meeting and had no place to put them but the White Confederates made room for their Southern brothers. Black Union veterans also attended this event.

I don't know where it might be written but I'm calling BS on this part of the account. In the first place, there were no Black Union troops present at Gettysburg. In the second place, there were no Black Confederate troops present at Gettysburg. So why would either show up at a reunion of the battle? And while I wouldn't be surprised if all the hotels in the area were segregated at the time I would be surprised that white Southerners would be any more racially tolerant or enlightened than white Northerners were and share their lodgings with them. Why would they do something in Pennsylvania that would not have been tolerated in Virginia or Mississippi?