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Gettyburg, PA

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-5uyp44WA

Gettysburg (1993) 20th Maine bayonet charge at Little Round Top

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Thousands gather in Gettysburg for Annual Civil War Battle Reenactment> 2017

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Hundreds of spectators and thousands of reenactors gathered in Gettysburg for the 154th Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Reenactment. Rain or shine, the battle went on, and it poured on them for a short time, but then, the sun came out and the Yankees and Confederates reenacted the first day of bloodiest battle in North American history, despite the heat and the threat of protests.

The threat of Antifa protesters also lingering in the back of some minds. This licensed battlefield guide had a message for anyone against seeing a confederate flag.

"We're just doing history here, just telling people story what happened in this country at the greatest battle in this half of the world. So it'd be kinda hard to do that without flags," said Jim Pangburn, a Licensed Battlefield Guide.

"It is a part of history. It's not a celebration of one side or the other at this time. It is a Memorial. It is a sign of those times," said Preston.

The Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle reenactment a tribute to the 1863 battle that took more than 51,000 casualties in just three days.

The reenactment will continue now through Monday, July 3rd.

[thenewleeland]

Gen. Buford: You know what's gonna happen here in the morning?

Col. Thomas C. Devin: Sir?

Gen. Buford: Whole damn Reb army's gonna be here. They'll move through this town, occupy these hills on the other side, and when our people get here Lee'll have the high ground, and there'll be the devil to pay! The high ground! Meade'll come in slowly, cautiously, new to command. They'll be on his back from Washington. Wires hot with messages. "Attack! Attack!" So he will set up a ring around these hills. And when Lee's army is all nicely entrenched behind fat rocks on the high ground, Meade'll finally attack, if he can coordinate the army. Straight up the hillside, out in the open, in that gorgeous field of fire. We will charge valiantly... and be butchered valiantly! And afterwards, men in tall hats and gold watch fobs will thump their chests and say what a brave charge it was.

[he takes off his hat and rubs his head in resignation]

Gen. Buford: Devin, I've led a soldier's life, and I've never seen anything as brutally clear as this. It's as if I can actually see the blue troops in one long, bloody moment, goin' up the long slope to the stony top. As if it were already done... already a memory. An odd... set... stony quality to it. As if tomorrow has already happened and there's nothin' you can do about it. The way you sometimes feel before an ill-considered attack, knowin' it'll fail, but you cannot stop it. You must even take part, and help it fail.

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Happy 200th birthday to General Lewis Addison “Lo” Armistead (February 18, 1817 – July 5, 1863)

“You can never know what this has cost me, and I hope God will strike me dead if I am ever induced to leave my native soil, should worse come to worse.”

“Trust in God and fear nothing.”

[ilovehistory24]

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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Episode #6 Listen to Paranormal Connections as we speak with Richard Estep.

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William H. Tipton (August 5, 1850 – September 20, 1929)