Civil War Reunions - Between 1900 and 1910, Conner Park in Canyon, Texas hosted Civil War reunions that brought together former Union and Confederate soldiers—men who, decades earlier, had stood on opposite sides of the bloodiest conflict in American history. Many of them went to war as boys. Some were barely fourteen or fifteen years old. Too young to vote. Too young to fully understand the causes. Yet old enough to carry rifles and fight friends, neighbors, and sometimes even their own brother