1863 The Killer Angels Key Terms: Skirmish Line, Mortar Key People: Winfield Hancock, George Meade, Joseph Hooker, John Pemberton, William Rosecrans Key Places: Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chancellorsville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga <Tab/>By 1863, people were already saying that the war would last forever. There were already over 200,000 casualties, or a little more than all the casualties suffered in World War One by the U. S. Over 100,000 men were dead, and another 50,000 were crippled for …
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…the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln *November 19, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania