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Gettysburg Memorial

With over 51,000 people killed, Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. They built Gettysburg National Military Park to honor the men who died.

Jefferson davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, which was the south. Davis was born in Kentucky in June 3, 1808
Mr.Davis went and graduated from West Point, which is a military school in New York.
Founded by Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
Davis later served in the United States Army and then became a rich cotton grower in Mississippi. But like every cotton grower he had slaves, Davis had seventy-four slaves.
In November 1861 Davis was elected president of the Confederate States. His vice president was Alexander …show more content…

It was from Rochester, New York, and was led by Colonel Patrick O´Rorkes.
The O'Rourkes were an Immigrant Irish family. Eighteen-year-old Charlie Spiesberger was one of the young immigrant recruits in the 140th. Some of the men walked barefoot because of the blisters on their feet.

Charles Spiesberger Charles Spiesberger was born in Germany. He enlisted in the 140th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Rochester, New York on August 26, 1862, at the age of 18.
Explains why they said young immigrants, but he was a younger man than the rest. No, I’m not saying all the other men were like fifty, but you get my point.
He was killed along with his regimental commander, Colonel Patrick O'Rorke, as the regiment counterattacked off the summit of Little Round Top on the afternoon of July 2nd, 1863. He was initially buried east of Little Round Top. Charles Spiesberger went to work for a Mr. Christian Vogel, who owned a grocery store on Trout Street in Rochester. He initially earned $1.25 a day but it wasn’t long before this hardworking young lad got a raise, to $1.50 per week. Sometimes he would be paid in cash; other times he would be paid in groceries. Charles worked in Vogel’s grocery store for nearly two years before going to work for another grocery store on Main Street in Rochester, owned by a Nathan Stern, who paid Charles $2.00 per week and who sometimes would prepare dinners …show more content…

He went to work at the age of twelve and all of the money he would go on to earn over the next few years, whether at the grocery stores, or at Auman’s clothing store, or at Morley’s gas fitting business, he would give to his mother and father. By the summer of 1862, however—just ten years after the Spiesberger family had arrived in the country—the United States was well in the throes of its darkest trial, facing its greatest challenge, as it went to war with itself. The conflict had begun the previous year but Charles, still only sixteen, was much too young to enlist just then. By the summer of 1862, though, he was near enough to the age of eighteen to enlist and on August 26 he volunteered his services, to fight for his adopted land while at the same time continuing to support his

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