Army of Northern Virginia Day Last day of the Battle of Gettysburg
1863-07-03
"All Virginia is here this day."
—attributed to Brigadier General Armitage
Samuel Newton Allen, my father, was
steeped in the glorious history of Virginia.
Had he been of military age in 1863, I know
he would have been in Gettysburg on July 3,
marching either where ordered, or in command.
Fifteen thousand Confederate soldiers stepped off from the woodline, bound for the Union position about a mile away, across an open field. The Union guns and muskets held them off. More than 70,000 soldiers in each of the two armies surrounded the maneuver, as if they were in a stadium, spread across the south Pennsylvania hills.
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