Thanks for posting this, I didn’t know about this event before so the vintage photos of it were wonderful to see. Some of those old fellas had beards longer than the ZZ Top boys.
You can see the video taken of this event in 1913 at the end of “The Civil War” series by Ken Burns. It is very moving to see these survivors marching with amputated legs and arms.
One of the honored guests was Mrs. Longstreet...
Very cool....