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Union cavalry troops engage Confederate cavalry with sabers during the Battle at the Sherfy House on July 2, 2011 during re-enactments of battles at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images
Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the Battle of Gettysburg, that terrible trilogy of days from July 1 to July 3, 1863, that left 6,000 Americans—Northerners and Southerners—dead on the field of battle.
Total casualties from the fighting—killed, wounded, and missing—rose above 50,000.
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