Civil War Widows Meet at Gettysburg

Their husbands fought on opposite sides in the Civil War in the last century, yet the frail war widows reached out to touch each other in an extraordinary display of unity and forgiveness. The meeting on the 134th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg united 96-year old Daisy Anderson, who married a former slave and Union soldier in 1927, with Alberta Martin, 90, who wed an aging Confederate veteran in 1922. The women, now confined to wheelchairs, are two of the last three surviving widows of fighters of the Civil War. They met in an old farmhouse used by Gen. Robert E. Lee as early in the battle of Gettysburg.