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These Honored Dead: Paying Homage to Our Past

When we pay a call on the past, we remember and honor the men and women who helped build our country.
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These Honored Dead: Paying Homage to Our Past
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
Jeff Minick
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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.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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