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The 1890 Blue-Gray reunion
32 minutes Posted Jul 2, 2015 at 2:45 am.
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For three days in October of 1890, Knoxville hosted an enormous reunion of Confederate and Union soldiers near the site of Fort Sanders. The visitors nearly doubled the city's population, and they all needed places to sleep, and food. How did Knoxville step up to the challenge? What did the veterans do at the reunion?