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Entitled "Attack of Johnston's Division, C.S.A. on the breastworks on Culps Hill defended by Wadsworth's Division, 1st Corps, and a part of the 12th Corps (under) General Slocum, half past seven P.M., July 2nd." The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Major General George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. Culp's Hill was a critical part of the Union Army defensive line, the principal feature of the right flank, or barbed portion of what is described as the fish-hook line. Holding the hill was by itself unimportant because its heavily wooded sides made it unsuitable for artillery placement, but its loss would have been catastrophic to the Union army. It dominated Cemetery Hill...