Battle of Gettysburg

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia!
-- General George E. Pickett, at Gettysburg

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Secession fever hit the South after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The South considered Lincoln's Republican party victory in the 1860 presidential election as a sign that the North was now going to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery. For the South, the time of talk and compromise had ended. In December, 1860 South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union. Secession of the rest of the states that would make up the Confederate States of America occurred in two waves.
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Gettysburg 146th Anniversary

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2009- Leave a Comment

July 1, 1863

Today marks the 146th anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg.

The Battle of Gettysburg

After the battle of Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee took the Army of Northern Virginia north into Maryland and Pennsylvania.

On July 1, 1863 the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac began a monumental three-day battle at a small crossroads town in Pennsylvania named Gettysburg.

Gettysburg was one of the most important battles of the Civil War. At Gettysburg, the Confederates suffered more than 30,000 killed, injured, or missing. For the Union, the number came to 23,000.

Gettysburg was a Union victory.

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"Fighting the same fight, that we’re still fighting amongst ourselves … today."

"… Listen to their souls, man …"

"You listen, … and take a lesson from the dead …"

-Excerpts from Coach Boone’s speech, in the movie "Remember the Titans."

The video features a speech by Coach Boone (played by Denzel Washington) from the movie "Remember the Titans."

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-- Sam Watkins, of Company H, 1st Tennessee of Nashville.

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
(Isaiah 2:4)