On this day 157 years ago is the anniversary of Pickett’s Charge which happened on the 3rd & final day of the battle of Gettysburg.
Where 15,000 Confederate soldiers against Union Major General George Meade’s troops’ position along Cemetery Ridge.
Over 6,000 Confederate casualties and marked the end of the battle of Gettysburg as well as Lee’s last invasion of the north.
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On this day 157 years ago was when Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain dashed headlong into history, leading his 20th Maine Regiment in perhaps the most famous counterattack of the Civil War at Little Round Top on day 2 of the Battle of Gettysburg July 2, 1863
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On this day 157 years ago both the North & the South collided at a small town in Pennsylvania starting the very 1st day of America’s bloodiest 3 day battle of Gettysburg making it the turning point of the American Civil War July 1, 1863
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Omaha Beach - Today and yesterday
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