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- Title: American Civil war Canadians Wear the Blue & the Grey: In the Hallowed Grounds of the Soldiers' National Cemetery are the Remains of Hundreds of Canadians Who Fought in the Three-Day Epic Battle of Gettysburg (Feature)
- Author : Paul Culliton
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: History,Books,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 83 KB
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If you have ever been in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania around the anniversary of the battle, July 1-3, 1863, you are well aware of the crush of people who flock to this hallowed ground to pay homage and walk in the shoes of history. One of the most visited places is the Soldiers' National Cemetery, which has its share of Canadians, known and unknown. Canadians were well-represented among the estimated 55,000 casualties, dead, wounded and missing. The Battle of Gettysburg is considered one of the great historic battles of the Civil War, or "The War of Northern Aggression" as Southerners prefer to call it (which it was, depending on which side of the fence one sits). Of the estimated 180,000 men who took part, almost one in three were killed, wounded or captured. By any standard, this is an appalling casualty rate.