Luke Johnson, 6, left, and his brother Andrew Johnson, 5, of Carterville, Ill., play Saturday after a re-enactment during ongoing activities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, at Bushey Farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Union forces turned away a Confederate advance in the pivotal battle of the Civil War fought July 1-3, 1863, which was also the war’s bloodiest conflict with more than 51,000 casualties. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Top Post (Chris Carlson re: Battle of Gettysburgh, which began 150 years ago today): As historian Allen C. Guelzo, author of a respected new history of the battle, writes in the New York Times: “It took no more than a few days after the Battle of Gettysburg for the men who had fought there to realize how important it had been. ‘The Battle of Gettysburg, like Waterloo, must stand conspicuous in the history of all ages,’ wrote a staff officer, Frank Aretas Haskell, who himself would die less than a year later in a much less conspicuous battle at a place called Cold Harbor. And even by the most remote measure, Haskell was right.” If the Civil War is the war that never ended, and in so many ways it is, then Gettysburg is the battle we can’t get enough of. More here.

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