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Battle of Gettysburg
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- Michael Shaara — The Killer Angels Maps by Don Pitcher To Lila (old George)...in whom I am well pleased TO THE READER This is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet and some of the other men who fought there.†
Chpt Frwd. *Battle of Gettysburg = major Civil War battle at Gettysburg where Union forces stopped Lee’s invasion of the North, with about 50,000 casualties
- Of the Battle of Gettysburg he is later to remark: "It took a great many mistakes to lose that battle.†
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(Battle of Gettysburg) three-day Civil War battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Union forces stopped Lee’s Confederate invasion of the North, with about 50,000 casualties (1863)The Battle of Gettysburg is often called a turning point of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee led the Confederate Army into Union territory, hoping a major victory in the North would pressure the Union to make peace. Instead, Union forces held their ground and pushed the Confederates back.
Both sides suffered enormous losses—around 50,000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured, or missing—making it the bloodiest single battle of the war.
A few months later, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the new soldiers’ cemetery there, linking the Union war effort more clearly to freedom and the eventual end of slavery. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)