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Staff Photo - Carl Hoover A Union surgeon's journal features a star from a captured Confederate flag.
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Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:01 am | Updated: 1:10 am, Thu Jun 27, 2013.
By CARL HOOVER [email protected]
CORSICANA — One hundred fifty years ago this week, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War took place far from Texas in Gettysburg, Penn.
This Saturday, artifacts from the Battle of Gettysburg, including a Confederate cavalry carbine, belt buckles, soldiers' letters and post-battle photographs, go on public display in the exhibit "Gettysburg: Standing With Desperate Bravery" at Navarro College's Pearce Museum in Corsicana.
A Union army led by Gen. George Meade blunted a Northern offensive by Southern Gen. Robert E. Lee and his troops in the bloody three-day battle, from July 1 to 3, 1863. About 50,000 soldiers died in the fighting and although the war would continue for nearly another two years, many consider Gettysburg the turning point.

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[RobertP]

These artifacts may have come from the Museum of Texas History, formerly The Confederate Research Center at Hillsboro College in neighboring Hill County. It's a pretty good museum, a lot of John Bell Hood and Texas Brigade stuff. The best thing about Corsicana is the Collin Street Bakery, which IMO makes the best non-homemade Fruitcakes and ships them all over the country!