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Building A Battle Site: Roads To And Through Gettysburg, Elwood W. Christ
Building A Battle Site: Roads To And Through Gettysburg, Elwood W. Christ
Adams County History
On the morning of 1 July 1863, lead elements of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia advanced on the town of Gettysburg situated in the lush farm lands of south-central Pennsylvania just eight miles east of the South Mountain in Adams county. The Southern reconnaissance in force made early that summer morning was destined not only to change the history of the struggling Confederacy, but also to set the infant United States republic, indeed the world, on courses towards more democratic forms of government.
Although many historians have dwelled on those three fateful days in 1863, few …