Confederates walk Pickett's ground again; Union men meet them at the wall with open hands

Fifty years after Pickett's Charge broke against a stone wall at Gettysburg, the men who survived it came back to walk the ground again. On July 3, 1913, aging Confederate veterans reenacted the charge, moving toward the same ridge where thousands of their comrades had fallen. Waiting for them at the wall were Union survivors, who reached out their hands instead of rifles. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the gathered veterans, calling their old battles "forgotten" except for the valor on both sides…