Gettysburg's Dead: "The Enemy Really Lay in Heaps"
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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On July 4, as Confederate forces withdrew from Gettysburg, Col. Charles S. Wainwright rode along the base of Culp's Hill and the furthest advance of Pickett's Charge to see the scenes of carnage and debris in the aftermath of battle. He shared his observations in his journal.
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