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Three former camp slaves participate in a Confederate veterans’ reunion in an unknown location in the 1930s.

The presence of African Americans at reunions reinforced the Lost Cause even as late as the 1940s. Dr. R. A. Gwynne, seated center, attended the final Confederate veterans’ reunion in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1944. He would have been roughly ten…

Former camp slaves attend a veterans’ reunion in Tampa, Florida, in 1927. Steve Perry (“Uncle Steve Eberhart”) is fifth from the left and holds a Confederate flag, while Louis Napoleon Nelson sits on the far right with his bugle. The individual in…

The ribbons and medals worn by Jefferson Shields attest to the numerous veterans’ reunions that he attended around the turn of the twentieth century. Shields served as a personal servant to Colonel James Kerr Edmondson of Field and Staff, 27th…

Steve Perry, known as “Uncle Steve Eberhart,” proved to be a popular attraction with white audiences at veterans’ reunions owing to his stories of foraging during the war and his practice of carrying two chickens under each arm.