Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) Section- Shaara Personal belongings open a window

Personal belongings open a window into the lives of those who battle in America's Civil War

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Gettysburg’s battlefield strategies

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Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) Section- Shaara Personal belongings open a windowby John David Hoptak Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far