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Commonwealth Museum Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin

First Day at Gettysburg

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First Day at Gettysburg On the first day of the engagement, July 1, 1863, as the slow and unplanned collision of the two armies began, the 12th Massachusetts (part of Baxter’s brigade) was among the first of the Union units to occupy Oak Ridge and stall the Confederate advance northwest of town.

First Day at Gettysburg
On the first day of the engagement, July 1, 1863, as the slow and unplanned collision of the two armies began, the 12th Massachusetts (part of Baxter’s brigade) was among the first of the Union units to occupy Oak Ridge and stall the Confederate advance northwest of town.