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George Round (Chairman
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1911 Manassas Peace Jubilee
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In 1911, fifty years to the date of the
First Battle of Manassas, Lt. Col. Edmund Berkeley delivered the welcome address and read
an opening poem at the Manassas National Jubilee of
Peace where Confederate and Union veterans formed lines
on the site of the battle and came together shaking
hands. Later that day President Taft addressed the crowds.
Berkeley was a supporter of peace and
reuniting the country. In 1915 when unkind remarks were
made from those in Richmond against the 1911 Manassas
Peace Jubilee and his Union friend George Round, Berkeley
wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch to explain his viewpoint.
"The peace jubilee was held at Manassas
in 1911. I have never met with a Confederate veteran who did not
favor it." - Lt. Col. Edmund Berkeley
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