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The Battle of Gettysburg (3rd Day)
pekin.net ^ | Jon Meinen, Renee Bussone, and Rachel Smith

Posted on 07/03/2008 6:28:24 AM PDT by mware

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To: ClearCase_guy

good points.


41 posted on 07/03/2008 7:51:10 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: MplsSteve
I stated to you: the North (who had more of everything)

I should have qualified that by adding: "Except for a superior field Commanders at the begining of the war"

42 posted on 07/03/2008 7:54:05 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: NavyCanDo

bttt


43 posted on 07/03/2008 7:54:27 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: LS
The battles of the Civil War can be confusing.

According to Shelby Foote, one side named the battles after physical geographic featrues near the battle, while the other named the battle after cites near the battle.

44 posted on 07/03/2008 7:55:43 AM PDT by mware
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To: NavyCanDo

digging in the park will extend his vacation. The Rangers frown on those activities.


45 posted on 07/03/2008 7:55:53 AM PDT by zek157
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“digging in the park will extend his vacation. The Rangers frown on those activities.”

Even better. That would serve him right for rubbing-in his vacation to the battlefield.

46 posted on 07/03/2008 7:58:33 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Non-Sequitur; LS

Chamberlain was significant for a number of reasons. One of the more obscure is that he is considered the last man to die from wounds received in the Civil War. He died in 1914 (not 1913) and his death was attributed to his wound at Petersburg.


47 posted on 07/03/2008 8:05:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: mware

I’ve seen it before.

The tree was in the center of the Mule Shoe Salient at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

Read some on-line accounts of the battle or pick up “Bloody Roads South” by Noah Trudeau.


48 posted on 07/03/2008 8:17:19 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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49 posted on 07/03/2008 8:24:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: mware

Today I think again of my cousin Jim from Fauquier County, who marched with the Eighth Virginia and became one of the “pink mist” boys, forever nineteen.

He was a dear young man; I have read and touched his charming letters. His brother, a captain, had to go back home and tell their mother that he had lost her baby during Pickett’s Charge.


50 posted on 07/03/2008 8:30:39 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: LS
It would be very bad to get hit by a .58 cal soft lead bullet.


51 posted on 07/03/2008 8:33:38 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ( They told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated)
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To: ottbmare

Courageous men they were. That is 3 o’clock in the morning courage, to walk across that field.


52 posted on 07/03/2008 8:34:33 AM PDT by mware
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To: mware

” the Federally slowed there rate of fire “

huh?


53 posted on 07/03/2008 8:47:00 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: ottbmare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upjmliBwbVU&feature=related
54 posted on 07/03/2008 8:53:25 AM PDT by mware
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The more often I stand on either Cemetery and Seminary ridges the more in awe I become of those men.


55 posted on 07/03/2008 9:04:30 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mware

My brother and I are heading up there tomorrow for the reenactments.


56 posted on 07/03/2008 9:05:43 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: ClearCase_guy

The “what if Jackson were at Gettysburg?” questions are fascinating. Ewell and Longstreet have been convenient scapegoats for those trying to absolve Lee of any responsibility for the defeat.


57 posted on 07/03/2008 9:10:21 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: LS

LOL. Great analogy.


58 posted on 07/03/2008 9:11:45 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mware
The battles of the Civil War can be confusing. According to Shelby Foote, one side named the battles after physical geographic featrues near the battle, while the other named the battle after cites near the battle

I was at the Old Court House museum a few weeks ago in Winchester, VA and the lady who worked there assumed I was from the south because I reffered to the battle of Sharpsburg instead of Antietam.

59 posted on 07/03/2008 9:14:27 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mware
Gettysburg battle weather observations 1863
60 posted on 07/03/2008 9:23:05 AM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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