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the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point

The Big Book of Civil War Sites: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, a Visitor's Guide to the History, Personalities, and Places of America's Battlefields (James C. Bradford - CH) soldier As a source of dissent