A Visit With John Gibbon
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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John Gibbon, the Union-loyal major general from North Carolina, is associated with the Iron Brigade, the defense of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, and the last campaigns that culminated at Appomattox. Long after the war he met up with a fried in Virginia to hunt. Here's the story.
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