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Ai GflttyjburjAs for Billy Rudd, h« wax tlt; fight in his last battle in llio Civt \Yat\ The battle was fa Jast foi three days outside the quiet H'Uc market {own of Gettysburg. l'eimyJvania. This, Lhe battle the historians term “the decisive onc’; of ihc War, was an unexpected Cut not nit imwmilcrt one }% either side.On Juno 3*01 h a small delnclimrnl of Confederate General A. I\ uni's corps rode into the town of Getlys-hurg in search of bons for ihc Southern soldiers. They found plenty of boots — worn ly Hie Union's Grand Army of Potomac' And, in a search for shoes a Confederate offensive was launched at Gettysburg.The first two 'ays of flic baffle, July ]«.t .,tid 2nd, were costly for the Union avmi Federal Central Meade's casual* m list wns end less. BifJy Rudd and lt;he gray-efnd Confederates line desperately slurmed t-iiips Hill not more limn several h ^Ircd yards from Mcde's headquarters.But vicLors in war tend to be aggressive. Three Confederate commanders grouped 15,000menstrong to attempt an uphill invasion against the very confer of the Union lines.History tells us this ol tlic advance;/‘Prom Cemetery Ridge, theUnion troops saw three gray hnes of battle issue from the woodedri riff.-. 4 Ii tins . wl r I.
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Fort Pierce News Tribune
Fort Pierce, Florida, US
Sun, Jul 14, 1957
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