Answers to the Gettysburg History Challenge!
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1. b. North & Southern banks.
2. c. forage cap.
3. d. light marching order.
4. d. the color guard.
5. b. Emergency Regiments.
6. a. General Henry Heth.
7. c. retreat through Gettysburg.
8. b. Seminary Ridge.
9. c. left flank.
10. d. Rock Creek.
11. c. in breaking the Union line at the "angle".
12. b. a casualty.
13. a. the Potomac River.
14. c. Edward Everett.
15. d. David Wills.
16. a. U.S. Sanitary Commission.
17. b. new recruits.
18. a. The Bonnie Blue Flag.
19. c. a drum.
20. d. George Sykes.

EXTRA CREDIT- b. Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana.

EXTRA, EXTRA CREDIT- Brig. General John B. Gordon from Georgia. On July 1, he found Union General Francis Barlow lying on the battlefield. He had been seriously wounded and appeared to be dying. Gordon gave Barlow water and ordered that he be carried to a nearby house for shelter until the general's wife could get to him. Without Gordon's consideration and compassion, Barlow would never have survived. Find out more about this remarkable incident at Stop 5, The Barlow-Gordon Incident in the Gettysburg National Military Park Virtual Tour!

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