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- Joined
- Jun 2, 2017
The placement of the 72nd’s Pennsylvania Infantry monument at Gettysburg was at the center of a controversy that eventually reached all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Some veterans had argued that the 72nd Pennsylvania had not really fought at the Angle and didn’t deserve to be honored at that forward position. One embittered former soldier asked, “What is the value of a Monument on the field anyhow, when it attempts to enforce a lie?”....
http://www.historynet.com/monumental-lie-statue-bloody-angle.htm
http://www.historynet.com/monumental-lie-statue-bloody-angle.htm