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| | | | | One of my all-time favorite movies is Ron Maxwell's 1993 epic Gettysburg, a historical masterpiece that focuses on the events of the Battle of Gettysburg from the perspectives of four of its key players on opposing sides: Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and John Buford. Filmed on location at Gettysburg National Military... | |
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| | | | | The Fifth Iowa Regimental Site is grateful to Jeff Daniels for the history below, to which he retains the copyright. Jeff is the great great grandson of Corporal Sherman Thomas Kirk, a veteran of both the Fifth Iowa Infantry and the Fifth Iowa Cavalry. Jeff is a civilian analyst at the Training and Doctrine Command... | |
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| | | | | "Untrained soldiers, hastily assembled amateur armies, and inexperienced commanders faced the brutal realities of combat for the first time." THE First Battle of Manassas, often referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run, stands... | |
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| | | Late in the afternoon of July 1, 1863, after a full day of fierce fighting, Confederate troopshaddriventhe Union defenders from the fields west of Gettysburg. As the Union troops fledthrough the towneast toward Cemetery Hill, General Robert E. Lee senta discretionary orderto Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell,meaning he left the decision of whether tomake a... | ||
