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A Union Army officer of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry studies his playing cards while waiting for orders during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia in the summer of 1864.
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A Union Army officer of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry studies his playing cards while waiting for orders during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia in the summer of 1864.
Locals and living historians are furious at the rise of AI data centers on historic lands. Now, lawsuits are flying like Civil War cannonbal
Hurrah for the Union Army in its holy fight against the Confederacy the evil AI overlords and the destruction of historic sites.
I'd pay way too much money to see a full Civil War era artillery assault on an AI data center.
Details from Black Hats by Don Troiani, depicting the 19th Indiana soldiers of the famed Iron Brigade at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
“Lions of Little Round Top, July 2nd 1863″
Late in the afternoon of July 2, 1863, on a boulder-strewn hillside in southern Pennsylvania, Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain dashed headlong into history, leading his 20th Maine Regiment in perhaps the most famous counterattack of the Civil War.
The regiment’s sudden, desperate bayonet charge blunted the Confederate assault on Little Round Top and has been credited with saving Major General George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac, winning the Battle of Gettysburg and setting the South on a long, irreversible path to defeat.
(Painting by Don Troiani)
Union infantry in chasseur uniforms.
Union Army camp at Castle Murray, Near Auburn, Virginia, November 1863
Art Institute of Chicago
“I had no alternative but to order the regiment in. We had no force on hand to meet the sudden emergency. Troops had been ordered up and were coming on the run, but I saw that in some way five minutes must be gained or we were lost. It was fortunate that I found there so grand a body of men as the 1st Minnesota. I knew they must lose heavily and it caused me pain to give the order for them to advance, but I would have done it even if I had known every man would be killed. It was a sacrifice that must be made. The superb gallantry of those men saved our line from being broken.” - Union Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock
“The Last Full Measure”, [Keith Rocco]
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