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1. While having lunch before Pickett's Charge, General Garnett didn't like the Pennsylvania water to drink. He suggested and preferred to mix this item with his water?
2. After having his left knee shattered by a shell, General Daniel Sickles was carried away on a litter. At the same time to show his resolve Sickles did what?
3. Which General was taken out of battle early by an exploding shell injury on the 2nd day of fighting?
4. This famous Camp was constructed to house the injured after the battle which was named?
5. While Ewell and Longstreet were ordered to attack the Union flanks simultaneously, which General was orderd to attack the Union center during those 2nd Day attacks?
6. Which reporter who viewed the battle of July 3rd was known to have written, 'O, you dead, who at Gettysburg have baptized with your blood the second birth of Freedom in America, how you are to be envied?'?
7. This structure saw the withdrawal of the Federal I Corps on July 1st and also became a field hospital which was it?
8. Who was quoted as saying, 'I wanted to do something for the poor soldiers if I knew what.'?
9. What did civilian people wear or carry to let sharpshooters know that they were not the enemy?
10. Who was quoted as saying, 'We were in the open, without a thing better than a wheat straw to catch a Minnie bullet ... Of course our men began to tumble.'?
11. Which most commonly stolen item were typically taken from the dead by the Confederates?
12. Who was quoted as saying, 'Never mind that, the sound of my guns will be encouraging to our troops and disheartening to the others.'?
13. Which commander's badly damaged division saw extremely heavy fighting on the 1st day and found itself back in action on the 3rd day without it's leader?
14. Which Commission was headquartered at Camp Letterman after the battle?
15. Which militia group was ordered to Gettysburg to maintain and control order throughout the battlefield clean up?
16. Which battlefield item did the government pay people to take from the battlefield and deposit?
17. Who was intrumental in getting the battlefield of Gettysburg to be controlled by Federal authority as a National Park?
18. How old was the then Brevet Brigadier General Custer at Gettysburg?
19. General Lee ordered his staff to remove these from the area of his stay near the Thompson house?
20. Bids were placed in Gettysburg to remove Federal soldiers' bodies from the battlefield and to placed in the new National Cemetary. Of the 34 bids to remove the bodies, which amount won the contract for the removal per body?
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