Just a little history
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07/03/20 11:39 AM
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On this date in 1863, confederate soldiers were lining up for what's called Picketts charge.
150 Confederate cannons and 100 Union cannons are about to take part in the largest artillery barrage in our history. Then around 2:00, 12,000+ Confederate soldiers in a line a wide start marching across the field.
The point that they are stopped was/is considered the high water mark of the war, which just happened to be on land owned by a black fella.
A lot of good men died today during the bloodiest battle (Gettysburg) of the war.
51,000+ casualties and 7,800+ killed.
Last edited by hippie; 07/03/20 11:41 AM.
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 11:53 AM
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Very cool to be reminded... thanks hippie!
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 01:27 PM
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Great post , Hippie
History is a good thing to learn about.
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 04:05 PM
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Thank you for sharing. I will never be able to comprehend how erasing history and its markers would ever improve anyone's life. While I was gone a large group of fools threatened to tear down the Alamo. Not something Texans were going to tolerate and likely never will be.
I hope the markers and statues at Gettysburg will be safe for all of our grandchildren visit and learn about just like the Alamo.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 04:36 PM
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My Great Grandfathers unit marker in the Wheatfield. My Great-Great Uncles unit marker on top of Little Round Top. My great grandfathers name on the PA monument.
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 05:02 PM
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Awesome history guys! Here's a pic of my granddads uncle's discharge papers. He was wounded in battle. Here's a medal my granddad got for ww1 My granddad more of less raised me until I got out of school and took up house keeping myself. Wish I would've paid closer attention to his stories!
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 05:27 PM
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I have always enjoyed history. Thank you hippie!
I still recall one of my profs back in the late 70's telling our class, "history is written by the victorious, and because this country has usually been victorious in all it sets out to accomplish, history is not accurately written about by these individuals. They just write to prop themselves up. Losers have a more accurate account most times." Or something like that.
I remember sitting there in that Ann Arbor campus course thinking, this nut is weird. Where'd he go to school?
He's probably at Harvard now.
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 05:37 PM
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Ian Woodcock's book-50 yrs a hunter an trapper is a little extra special being from places i go or been.amazing amount of history in that ol book also.
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Re: Just a little history
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07/03/20 07:27 PM
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The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and approximately 75,000 in the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert Edward Lee. Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529 wounded, 5,365 missing). Confederate casualties were 28,063 (3,903 dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing), more than a third of Lee’s army.
Both the Union Army and the Confederacy's Army had over 5,000 missing after the Battle of Gettysburg, were they deserters?
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07/03/20 07:44 PM
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I have always enjoyed history. Thank you hippie!
I still recall one of my profs back in the late 70's telling our class, "history is written by the victorious, and because this country has usually been victorious in all it sets out to accomplish, history is not accurately written about by these individuals. They just write to prop themselves up. Losers have a more accurate account most times." Or something like that.
I remember sitting there in that Ann Arbor campus course thinking, this nut is weird. Where'd he go to school?
He's probably at Harvard now. I think at times, one needs to hear both sides...then meet somewhere in the middle, unless dealing with recorded specifics. Great thread!
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