From the Crossroads: A Timely Hunch

On July 1, 1863, Brig. Gen. John Buford’s cavalry division at Gettysburg desperately holds back hordes of Confederates, as both sides sustain terrible losses. That is the popular image, but it is largely myth. Buford did fight a successful delaying action that morning, but there was no wreckage strewn across the landscape or mounds of …

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