A History of the Battle of Gettysburg (2050 words, 3 pages)
Gettysburg is arguably the Army of the Potomac's (AOP) only great victory on the battlefield. Antietam, certainly a strategic victory, showed Robert E. Lee's unstoppable killing machine was indeed stoppable. And the AOP did, of course, eventually force Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) from its impregnable Petersburg trenches. But ...
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