[0.E.O]

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?

[central_va]

Here is another account

More than 53,000 Union and Confederate veterans from 47 states converged on the battlefield for the June 29-July 4 festivities, making it perhaps the biggest such military reunion in American history. Despite the segregation and racism of the time, black veterans from both the Union and Confederacy were also among the attendees.

Link.

[central_va]

One of the most “telling” monuments to the South and including Black Confederates and other Black Southerners is this 1912 (pre-PC) Confederate Memorial towers 32 and 1/2 feet and is said to be the tallest bronze sculpture at Arlington National Cemetery. On top is a figure of a woman, with olive leaves covering her head, representing the South. She also holds a laurel wreath in her left hand, remembering the Sons of Dixie. On the side of the monument is also a life size depiction of a Black Confederate marching in step with white soldiers, and among other life size depictions, a Black woman receiving a baby as a father going off to war. These are the stories that bring people together, not the Neo-Yankee version of the South that we are having to endure today. We could do with a lot less “presentism”!

[central_va]

The union troops were segregated so no black regiments were there. The blacks were imbedded on Confederate Regiments, so they were there.

[donmeaker]

My recollection is that the southern veterans provided a tent for the use of the ‘black confederates’.