More than sixty years after the guns went silent and the flags were furled at the end of the Civil War, Lawrence County’s aging Confederate veterans continued to gather as often as they could to relive the military exploits of their youth.

This photo shows a group of unnamed Lawrence County Confederate veterans during a reunion in Lawrenceburg in 1929.

When the first Confederate veterans gatherings began in Lawrence County in the 1890s, it was not uncommon for the entire community to turn out in order to eat with and honor the old veterans, who would, in turn, usually bring some small relic of their wartime service to show off to the crowd.

As can be seen here, not many of the old Rebels were able to attend the 1929 Lawrence County reunion.