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27 Oct

When Nathan Bedford Forrest was sixteen years old, his father died, leaving him responsible for helping support his mother and younger siblings. He worked in farming and other manual labor before pursuing business opportunities that gradually improved his financial situation.

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26 Oct

Nathan Bedford Forrest was born on July 13, 1821, near Chapel Hill in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was the eldest of twelve children born to William Forrest and Miriam Beck Forrest.

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25 Oct

At the Gettysburg National Military Park, you will find many monuments and statues. The Virginia Memorial was dedicated in 1917 by the state of Virginia. This statue shows Confederate General Robert E. Lee on his famous gray warhorse, Traveller.

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24 Oct

“In many instances arms and legs and sometimes heads protrude and my attention has been directed to several places where hogs were actually rooting out the bodies and devouring them.” - Description of the Gettysburg battlefield three weeks after the July 1-3, 1863 battle.

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22 Oct

“You will, however, learn before this reaches you that our success at Gettysburg was not so great as reported-in fact, that we failed to drive the enemy from his position, and that our army withdrew to the Potomac" - Robert E. Lee, writing to his family after Gettysburg.

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21 Oct

President Abraham Lincoln wanted the Army of Northern Virginia destroyed and was unhappy Lee’s army escaped back to Virginia after Gettysburg. Lincoln said Meade’s chase after Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia was like: “an old woman trying to shoo her geese across a creek.”

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20 Oct

Both Gen. George G. Meade's and Lee’s armies were exhausted and spent after the three-day battle at Gettysburg. Meade cautiously pursued Lee’s retreating Army of Northern Virginia, but the Confederates crossed the Potomac River and escaped.

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19 Oct

Gen. George G. Meade and the Army of the Potomac won a major victory at Gettysburg in July 1863. General Lee’s invasion of the North was both incomplete and unsuccessful, and it was finished.

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18 Oct

At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, about two or three hundred Confederates from Virginia and Tennessee were able to break through the Union line during Pickett's Charge.

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17 Oct

At Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, canister and infantry fire rained down hard on General Pickett’s charging men but they bravely held their lines. Death spread like wildfire and Pickett’s division lost 75% of its men.

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Here brothers fought for their principles
Here heroes died to save their country
And a united people will forever cherish
the precious legacy of their noble manhood.
-- Pennsylvania Monument at Vicksburg

“The histories of the Lost Cause are all written out by big bugs, generals and reknowned historians. Well, I had as much right as any man to write a history.”
-- Sam Watkins (1839-1901), of Company H, 1st Tennessee of Nashville. Author of: Co. Aytch: A Side Show of the Big Show.

“History must stay open, it is all humanity.”
-- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), American author and poet.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-- George Santayana (1863-1952), philosopher and poet.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
-- William Faulkner

“History is not was, it is.”
-- William Faulkner

"History is not gossip; opinion is seldom truth."
-- Miss Sibby, R. T. Smith's fictional docent at the Lee Chapel in Lexington, Virginia. From Smith's book, "Uke Rivers Delivers."

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