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Gettysburg’s Blood-Soaked Lessons: Do Modern Americans Still Understand?

I walked Cemetery Ridge on a cold morning whilst the park was nearly empty, only a ranger’s truck idling close to the Pennsylvania Monument and a couple in windbreakers tracing a map with their hands. The grass nevertheless holds the contours of old earthworks, low and stubborn. If you stand close to the Copse of Trees and face west, you notice exactly what the men of Pickett’s division saw. A mile of gently rising floor, a low stone wall, flags fluttering, and the awful ge