"I Was In That Fracas at Gettysburg"
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Sergeant David A. Barnett of the 99th Pennsylvania Infantry participated in the second and third days' fighting at Gettysburg, and lived to write home about it. In a letter to his cousin Robert, Barnett recalls the battle and pokes fun at the "fireside generals" who criticized the Army of the Potomac for not destroying the Confederate army before that escaped to Virginia.
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