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Crisis of the War Story of the Famous Battle of Gettysburg
Fifty years after Gettysburg, the Union and Confederate forces clashed for three days in a turning Civil War battle. Lee’s about 84,000 faced Meade’s roughly 80,000, with heavy losses on both sides and a decisive Union stand at Little Round Top and Pickett’s Charge. Generals Reynolds Hancock Sickles Sykes Sedgwick Howard Slocum, and Lee’s Longstreet Ewell Hill Doubleday are cited amid fierce combats and high casualties.
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Gettysburg
Robert E. Lee
John F. Reynolds
W. S. Hancock
Daniel F. Sickles
George Sykes
John Sedgwick
O. O. Howard
H. W. Slocum
Lee
James Longstreet
Richards. Ewell
A. P. Hill
Reynolds
Abner Doubleday
Seminary Ridge
Meade
Longstreet
Round Top
Sickles
Peach Orchard
Cemetery Hill
Culp’s Hill
the Devil's den