Kennedy Harkins's List: English War

• July 1 - 3, 1863
• Adams County, Pennsylvania
• July 1 - 3, 1863
• Confederates drove Union defenders through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill
• struck the flanks of the Union line
• severe fighting at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill.
• July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground.
• attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge
• heavy losses in what is known as Pickett’s Charge. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed.

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• The Battle of Gettysburg started without the knowledge or consent of either army commander -- Lee or Meade.
• Of 120 generals present at Gettysburg, nine were killed or mortally wounded during the battle.
• 63 Medals of Honor awarded to Union soldiers for their actions at Gettysburg
• more than 1,400 monuments, markers and tablets at Gettysburg.
• More than 30,000 dead and wounded soldiers were left in the battle's wake.
  
• The Battle of Gettysburg started without the knowledge or consent of either army commander -- Lee or Meade.

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• 150^TH Gettysburg Anniversary National Civil War Battle Reenactment
• will take place just outside of Gettysburg over four days, on July 4, 5, 6, & 7.

• November 19, 1863
• National Cemetery
• "few appropriate remarks,"
• Edward Everett
• In about 260 words
• "Four score and seven years ago,"
• equality, freedom, and national unity

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