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GETTYSBURG, PA - JULY 6: Men playing Confederate Army soldiers fire their muskets during a Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on the 150th anniversary year of the event, on July 6, 2013 in Gettysburg, ... GETTYSBURG, PA - JULY 6: Men playing Confederate Army soldiers fire their muskets during a Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg on the 150th anniversary year of the event, on July 6, 2013 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. More than 10,000 reenactors came to the biggest ever reenactment of the event, drawing thousands of spectators. (Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor MORE LESS
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Angry Floridians protest plan to build a Union monument at the largest Civil War battle site in Florida. “Passions ran high, at one point erupting in a spontaneous chorus of ‘Dixie’ led by a black man, H.K. Edgerton, who called Union soldiers rapists and wielded his large Confederate flag like a conductor’s baton as the audience sang.”

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