Friday: Having a lot of problems with the "this day in history sites" which are woefully incomplete.
Morgan captured
July 26, 1863 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/confederate-leader-john-hunt-morgan-is-captured Unfortunately this source doesn't say who died on "this day in history."
Sam Houston died in Texas per
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1863/july/26 (I already guessed him)
Per
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-J-Crittenden, the other was
John J. Crittenden, best known as author of the Crittenden Compromise.
Bonus: Well, I found three: "On
September 10, 1978 during the Middle East Peace Summit,
President Carter paid a visit to Gettysburg in company with
Menachem Begin and
Anwar Sadat. One of the stops planned for their tour was Little Round Top. In preparation for this historic event, an NPS memorandum noted that Devil's Den was used by sharpshooters during the battle to pick off high ranking officers on Little Round Top. It warned that the Secret Service should secure that area, in an effort to guard against another such occurrence."
http://www.gdg.org/Research/Authored Items/ssden.html
I suspect that the entourages of the three included a lot of dignitaries. One, according to this source, was
Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman.
http://www.ultimate70s.com/seventies_history/19780910/news: "Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were seen chatting across the muzzle of a Union cannon at the Gettysburg Civil War battle site, and that was close to being the best hint of how summit talks on Mideast peace may be going. Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, also along on the outing, told reporters that two or three more days are needed "for things to crystallize."
[Chicago Tribune]"
Per this source:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sullivan/diary/09-10-78_Diary.html,
Mrs. Carter and
Mrs. Begin were also part of the President's motorcade to Gettysburg.
Thanksgiving bonus: I couldn't find an online source that specifically mentions the error, but I think I've found it from the monument descriptions.
Per this site,
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/..._Co_A_Maryland_Cavalry_Monument_Gettysburg_PA,
the Purnell Legion monument features a cavalryman carrying a Spencer repeating carbine, acccording to the description.
On the
3rd Pennsylvania monument,
http://gettysburg.stonesentinels.co...ennsylvania-cavalry/3rd-pennsylvania-cavalry/,
there is also a cavalryman brandishing what looks suspiciously like another Spencer repeating carbine, even though
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMBBC9 describes it as a "rifle"--per the photo, it's too short for a rifle.
The Spencer repeating carbine was not in service until the fall of 1863 and was not available to be used at Gettysburg.
@Eric Wittenberg, in an appendix to his
The Devil's to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg, examines this issue (especially the folklore that Buford's troopers had them) in detail.