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On Thursday, July 2, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg tumbled into its second day. What on Wednesday, the 1st, had been a meeting engagement was now a set battle - one with far more men on the scene and still much at stake.
On this day, Robert E. Lee and George Gordon Meade would experience the crushing weight of responsibility and loneliness of command - both issuing orders which placed tens of thousands into harm’s way. And when those orders were misinterpreted or went awry: anguish from thousands who suffered the convoluted and bloody consequences.
Such were the clashes this day that geographical features, fields, and orchards would be added to this nation’s list of iconic landmarks - the Round Tops, Devil’s Den, the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Ridge, Culp’s and Cemetery Hills.
This is the story of some of those men and their units that transformed those landmarks into hallowed ground.
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Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
J.E.B. Stuart
Lafayette McLaws
Daniel Sickles
Winfield Scott Hancock
Joshua Chamberlain
Edward E. Cross