Gettysburg: The Wheatfield

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““The 27th Connecticut, the smallest Union regiment at Gettysburg, was routed on July 2, 1863 in The Wheatfield. Its Lieutenant Colonel, 24-year-old Henry Merwin of New Haven, was killed here.””

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