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039 - July 2, 1863 - A Rolling Thunder - The Second Day at Gettysburg
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On Thursday, July 2, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg tumbled into its second day. What on Wednesday, the 1st, had been a meeting engagement was now a set battle - one with far more men on the scene and still much at stake. On this day, Robert E. Lee and George Gordon Meade would experience the crushing weight of responsibility and loneliness of command - both issuing orders which placed tens of thousands into harm’s way. And when those orders were misinterpreted or went awry: anguish from thousands who suffered the convoluted and bloody consequences. Such were the clashes…
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