From the Archives, 1863: The Herald’s first report on the Battle of Gettysburg
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From the Archives, 1863: The Herald’s first report on the Battle of Gettysburg
This is the Herald’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg, which left 51,000 men dead, wounded or missing after three days of fighting. It was the decisive encounter of American Civil War.
By Sydney Morning Herald
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First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, September 11, 1863
SINCE the civil war in America broke out there has never been a mail that has brought tidings of such uniform success for the Federals and such uniform disaster for the Confederates.