Interpreting the Battle of Gettysburg-U.S.

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Historical Background 
Primary Sources      
David Beem, Letter to His Wife, July 5, 1863  
Samuel Wilkeson, “Details from Our Special Correspondent,” New York Times, July 6, 1863        
“The War in Pennsylvania” and Editorial, Fayetteville Observer, July 13, 1863
Alexander Gardner, “Dead Confederate Soldier in Devil’s Den” (photograph), July 1863     
“The Battle of Gettysburg—Longstreet’s Attack,” Harper’s Weekly, August 1863    
James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America, 1895      
Matilda Pierce Alleman, At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle. A True Narrative, 1889      
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