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"JOHN GIBBON: IRON MAN OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC!"

Pasadena Civil War Round Table Meeting - June 25, 2024 Our speaker, George Melrod of the Los Angeles CWRT, shared a presentation on Union General John Gibbon. Not all of the most remarkable generals in the Civil War were famous or commanded armies. Raised in North Carolina in a family of slave-owners, John Gibbon stayed loyal to the Union as the rest of his family sided with the South. During the Civil War, he trained and led the celebrated Iron Brigade, held the center of the Union line during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, and was prominent at Appomattox. After the war, he was an Indian fighter who rescued the survivors of Little Bighorn and advocated for justice for Native Americans. In many ways, he was a contradiction: a Southerner who chose loyalty to his country over state and family, and whose coolness in the field earned him the deep respect of his peers, while his penchant for finding flaws in both underlings and superiors caused numerous disputes – and nearly derailed his career. A complex figure with an epic life story emerges through a presentation filled with evocative visual imagery and human detail.