The small town of GETTYSBURG , thirty miles south of Harrisburg near the Maryland border, gained tragic notoriety in July 1863 for the cataclysmic Civil War battle in which fifty thousand men died. There were more casualties during these three days than in any American battle before or since - a full third of those who fought were killed or wounded - and entire regiments were wiped out when the tide finally turned against the South.

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