At Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of July 3rd, 1863 Robert E. Lee ordered 14,000 rebel troops under the command General George Pickett to commence the valiant but hopeless assault known as Pickett’s Charge. They marched over a mile through open fields with their sights on a clump of trees where federal troops waited behind a stone wall. Union cannons opened fire on the rebels with deadly shotgun-like canister shells that obliterated dozens of men at a time.............

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