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(DIR) Post #AXJeVBOaR1tmM9U5AW by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T11:35:27Z
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Gettysburg Day 3, July 3, 1863… the fighting began early. At about 4 AM, Genera Lee ordered General Ewell, who led the attack on Culp’s Hill on Day 2, to attack once again. If the Confederates can take Culp’s Hill they will control the high ground and allow them to rain artillery fire down on the Union forces. Holding Culp’s Hill would have also allowed the Confederates to cut the Union supply lines. After nearly 7 hours of fighting the assault fails & the Confederates have to pull back.
(DIR) Post #AXJfocBj92diuNIbbM by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T11:50:10Z
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After a short lull, Lee ordered Gen. Longstreet to prepare General Pickett’s troops for an assault on the Union forces. Longstreet advised Lee that he did not think the Confederate troops could sustain this attack, but Lee disregarded him and began the artillery barrage in the early afternoon. The confederates had 138 guns spread from the peach orchard to the Seminary that bombarded the Union forces, while the Union answered with 80 cannons of their own.
(DIR) Post #AXJfqYoWf2yd1SNHjk by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T11:50:28Z
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For a little more than 2 hours Lee fired upon the Union positions, softening them up for what would be the famous, ill-fated “Pickett’s charge”.
(DIR) Post #AXJgdSl9xXqUR27PRA by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T11:59:21Z
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After two hours of constant shelling, Confederate Col. Alexander sent word to Gen. Pickett that the Union troops were withdrawing and encouraged him to come quickly. Pickett sent his note to General Longstreet who, based on Lee’s orders & despite his own reservations, approved the charge.The attack, commonly known as Pickett’s Charge, was an attempt to penetrate the center of Union forces on Cemetery Ridge.
(DIR) Post #AXJhDrv7tDt6tX8jp2 by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T12:05:56Z
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The Confederate forces, spread rank-and-file out in a line over half-mile wide, needed to move about a mile through an open field and over a stone wall. Confederate Generals Johnson, Pettigrew, and Pickett focused the attack at Union's center on Cemetery Hill in close proximity to General Meade's headquarters. The Union's volley came from the front and sides as the two armies collided decimating the Confederate rank-and-file.
(DIR) Post #AXJjUH52JVApT5j4KG by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T12:31:18Z
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The advance began around 3:00 in the afternoon as the Confederates made their way toward the Union lines. As they advanced, Union soldiers used the rallying cry of “Fredericksburg”, in reference to the failed Union assault on the Confederate forces during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. The Confederates got roughly 400 yards from the Union lines before their formations and morale began to break down as the Union picked them off.
(DIR) Post #AXJkFBq3cSfWp25gLg by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T12:39:47Z
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The Confederates that did make it to the Union lines engaged in fierce, hand-to-hand combat, using rifles, bayonets, even rocks and their bare hands. The union line wavered just once at “The Angle”, at a small stone fence. A Confederate brigade of about 100 men temporarily reached the top of the ridge and breeched the Union line advancing a couple hundred yards, and actually capturing 2 Union cannons.
(DIR) Post #AXJkecdr6QvzBrVhlw by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T12:44:22Z
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Gen. Lewis Armistead who was leading the charge ordered the captured cannons be turned on the Union forces, only to discover they were out of ammunition. Union reinforcements were quickly brought up and they stopped the Confederate advance. This penetration of the Union line at Cemetery Hill has been called the high watermark of the Confederacy. Gen. Armistead was heard to yell, “Give them cold steel, boys!”, just before being shot.
(DIR) Post #AXJldd38CYLo7SQIF6 by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T12:55:24Z
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The whole of Pickett’s charge lasted about an hour, and resulted in 60% casualties for the Confederates, as well as their last, best chance for victory in the North. Casualties for day 3 of Gettysburg roughly totaled 3000 Union soldiers killed, wounded, or captured/missing, and 10,000 Confederates killed, wounded, or captured/missing.
(DIR) Post #AXJphzjeCKwHS8eAim by Trinitycreekmeats@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T13:41:01Z
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@obihahn ...and Pickett didn't even lead it. Another General, James Johnson Pettigrew, did. Pettigrew , also known as the Coralina Cavalier, might be of interest to the NAS. From an Amazon review of his Biography: As he wrote on entering Spain for the second time,Adieu to a civilization which reduces men to machines, which sacrifices half that is stalwart and individual in humanity to the false glitter of centralization, and to the luxurious enjoyments of a manufacturing, money age!
(DIR) Post #AXJq1ewDEQIYk6tv2u by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T13:44:33Z
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The total casualties for the battle of Gettysburg will vary depending on the source fro 46K to 51K, but the general agreed upon numbers of killed, wounded, and captured/missing is 23,049 Union forces, and 28,063 Confederates.
(DIR) Post #AXJquKw5IgTUdOugUq by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T13:54:27Z
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64 people received the Medal of Honor for their service in the Battle of Gettysburg, the final one being awarded by Batak Obama in 2014 to Lt. Alonzo Cushing of Delafield, WI. Cushing was 22 y/o and commanded an artillery unit that defended Cemetery Ridge against Pickett’s charge. He was wounded 3 times, but refused to leave his command on the battlefield, directing his cannon to fire upon the advancing rebels until finally succumbing to his third wound.
(DIR) Post #AXJrGKJGJDsx3zEwM4 by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T13:58:26Z
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Cushing was shot in the shoulder, suffered a wound from an artillery shell fragment that sliced open his abdomen. He was forced to hold his wound closed to prevent his intestines from spilling onto the battlefield. The pain was so intense he was unable to shout his orders, so he passed them on to one of his sergeants. His final wound came at the height of the battle, a shot thru his mouth, exiting the back of his skull.
(DIR) Post #AXJrN4rm7prRC4bPBQ by obihahn@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-03T13:59:39Z
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He is buried at the West Point cemetery. His epitaph as directed by his mother simply states, “Faithful Unto Death”.