The Witnesses

The words in Reunion were drawn from or inspired by the words of men and women who went through the conflict—politicians like Lincoln, Edwin Stanton and Gideon Welles; generals as vastly different as McClellan and Sherman and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; writers like Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman, who volunteered as nurses; abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman; White House intimates like Lincoln secretaries Noah Brooks and John Hay and Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress/confidant Elizabeth Keckley; Ford's Theatre actors like Harry Hawk and Laura Keene; and dozens of “ordinary”Union soldiers.

The Witnesses

Here is a small sampling of the men and women whose words can be heard in Reunion. For a complete listing of the witnesses used in REUNION, please view

The body of great writing that came out of personal experience in the Civil War—collected through the years by historians and family members—allowed us to tell the story entirely from the point-of-view of those who lived it. Their firsthand experiences provide the context that gives meaning to the beautiful wartime music, allowing it to live once again.

The voices heard in Reunion include:

Louisa May Alcott
Walt Whitman
Abraham Lincoln
General George McClellan
General Ulysses S. Grant
General William T. Sherman
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Keckley
John Wilkes Booth
Harry Hawk
Laura Keene
John Hay
John Nicolay
Noah Brooks
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Rev. Henry M. Turner
Horace Greeley
Nathaniel Hawthorne
General Joseph Hooker
James Russell Lowell
General John Pope
William Howard Russell
General Philip Sheridan
Gideon Welles

and dozens more.

Examples

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