Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic James Oakes shows that Lincoln’s

James Oakes shows that Lincoln’s landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation: it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation

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which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray

and concentrates on Lincoln’s visit to Gettysburg on November 18- 19

Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic James Oakes shows that Lincoln’sby John David Hoptak Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far