The victor at Gettysburg, he was known to some of his men as a "goggle-eyed old snapping turtle"
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Laurel Hill Cemetery event honors 'humble' Civil War general ...  Jan 2, 2013 ... George Gordon Meade was certainly accomplished, but his name ... "He was the victor of Gettysburg and he saved the nation there," ... Re-enactors from many units were dressed in Civil War garb, some ... A humble man with a temper ... described as a "goggle-eyed old snapping turtle" by a subordinate.
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A super long list of jeopardy questions  GitHub  3622-53 34363 DAMN YANKEES The victor at Gettysburg, he was known to some of his men as a "goggle-eyed old snapping turtle" George Meade 1800 $800.
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jeopardy/2998_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS | Jacob Parrott, the first winner, was among the men who stole this "high-ranking" Confederate locomotive | the General. right:.
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Major General Philip Sheridan; 'Little Phil' - On October 19, 1864 ...  Philip Sheridan "Little Phil" Union cavalry commander, used brutal 'scorched ... Ulysses S. Grant's famous horse, Cincinnati, in 1865 .... for generations in the Shenandoah Valley as "the Burning", on Sept 29, 1864, .... Carte-de-visite photograph of John Lincoln Clem (1851-1937), also called Johnny Clem or Johnny Shiloh.
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Prepared against the Day of Battle - Liahona Oct. 2013 - liahona  As Richard looked across the field, however, he saw some of his men falling back ... army advanced, Richard waved his sword high in the air, shouting, A horse!
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George Pickett - Wikipedia  ... third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge. Pickett graduated last out of 59 cadets in the West Point Class of 1846. He served as...
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Battle of Gettysburg ends - Jul 03, 1863 - HISTORY.com  On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's ... On July 3, Lee, having failed on the right and the left, planned an assault on ... At 3 p.m., Pickett led his force into no-man's-land and found that Lee's ... In less than an hour, more than 7,000 Confederate troops had been killed or wounded.
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A Band of Cousins - Sons of the American Revolution, Connecticut  The organization to be known as 'The Green Mountain Boys' was here begun ... Governor Tryon placed a reward of twenty pounds on the heads of Seth, Ethan, .... Seth, an acknowledged leaders of the settlers in their resistance to the New York ... The next day, Seth Warner and Remember Baker and troops captured the...
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The History Place - Battle of Gettysburg  It began as a skirmish but by its end involved 160,000 Americans. ... The Union Army of the Potomac under its very new and untried commander, ... Lee decided to gamble to win the Battle of Gettysburg and in effect win the .... He spoke in his high, penetrating voice and in a little over two minutes delivered the Gettysburg...
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War between the States - The Battle of Gettysburg - A Final Attempt  He didn't believe a charge against Cemetery Ridge would be successful. ... He had never led his division into battle before, but was delighted at his chance with glory and fame. ... Rather than punishing the Union front lines, the shells fell behind them, blasting those in the ... Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia!
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Emerson: The SC backstory to Gettysburg | The State  Jul 3, 2013 ... The conflict was greater than any fought in the history of the western ... Robert E. Lee moved his Army of Northern Virginia into southern Pennsylvania. ... More than 150,000 men converged on the small town of Gettysburg. ... legendary charge that defined the most famous battle of the war precipitated by the...
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Abraham Lincoln and Henry W. Halleck - Abraham Lincoln's ...  Indeed, Grant but had a difficult relationship with his jealous commander, who ... Four months later in July, President Lincoln called Halleck to Washington to .... were again obvious when Confederate troops threatened Washington in July 1864. ... whose success at the Battle of Gettysburg in early July was not followed by an...
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Union Generals George McClellan, Henry Hunt and Ambrose ...  American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant Won the Battle at Shiloh, .... Robert E. Lee is best known for his victories in the Battle of second ...... "August 1862:  Major-General Fitz John Porter  Major-General John Pope ..... A brilliant scholar who graduated first in his university class, proved to be a very fierce commander.
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Little Round Top - Wikipedia  Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvaniathe ... Although the larger hill was known before the battle as Round Top, Round ... Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine, to hold his ... received a Medal of Honor for his conduct in the defense of Little Round Top.
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Major General George Henry Thomas - DigitalCommons@Liberty ...  A Southerner for the Union: Major General George Henry Thomas  A Brief Biographical ... The name George Thomas is usually not on that list, although during the war he did earn a nickname similar to Jackson's: The Rock of Chickamauga. ..... Rock of Chickamauga, he also received the following epithets: Old Tom,...
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Defense of Little Round Top - Civil War Trust  ... on the Union defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. ... On June 3, 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee began the Army of Northern ... The next day, July 1, Heth headed toward Gettysburg with four brigades of ..... man in the regiment  a man who had no superior on the skirmish line.
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Battle of Gettysburg - Wikipedia  The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 13, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during ... Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry .... The first major action of the campaign took place on June 9 between cavalry forces at Brandy...
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The American Civil War Biography Thread - Page 3 - Historum ...  U.S. GRANT, his general at Shiloh, won him a 2d lieutenant's ... The first and direst of all disasters. Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce was born on 24 June 1842 in Horse Cave Creek, ..... certainly had little direct impact on the events of his short lifetime. ... August of 1861 was a defining month in John Rawlins' life.