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Wounded during the Union repulse of Pickett's Charge, Brig. Gen. John Gibbon received treatment for his injury in Baltimore and then went to a country home to recuperate. His host. John Latrobe, listened eagerly to Gibbon's details of the battle—and wrote a unique letter based on Gibbon's account.

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Image: National Archives

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