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Bloody Gettysburg Battle Turning Point of Civil War
Civil War narrative recounts the Gettysburg campaign starting with Confederate shoe pursuit and Union cavalry led by Buford. It covers Meade, Reynolds, Hancock, and the pivotal high ground battles on Seminary and Cemetery Ridges, concluding with Pickett's Charge and the 727 jet-age note intruding near the end.
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Gettysburg
Merton Takers
United Press International
Robert E. Lee
Northern Virginia
John Buford
George G. Meade
Army of the Potomac
Adams County
Cashtown
Buford
Alphonse Hodges
Co. F
N.Y. Cavalry
Hodges
Lee
Virginia
Meade
North
Antietam
Sharpsburg
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Britain
France
Washington
Pipe Creek
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Baltimore
J. E. B. Stuart
Carlisle
James Longstreet
J. Johnston Pettigrew
Corporal Hodges
John F. Reynolds
I Corps
Patrick Mahoney
2Nd
Wisconsin
James J. Archer
Reynolds
Abner Doubleday
O. O. Howard
XI Corps
2Nd Corps
Stonewall Jackson
Richard S. Ewell
Cemetery Ridge
Doubleday
Seminary Ridge
Lutheran Seminary
Winfield Scott Hancock
Hancock
Culp’s Hill
Culp's Hill
Ewell
John B. Hood
Round Top
Little Round Top
20Th Maine
New York
Hood
Round Tops
Daniel Sickles
III Corps
Sickles
III
Peach Lorchard
Devil’s den
Armistead
Stuart