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#OTDIH: The first day of the #BattleofGettysburg during the American Civil War took place and began as an engagement between isolated units and escalated into a major battle that culminated in the Union forces retreating to the high ground south of Gettysburg, PA. 
7:30 am: First shot fired intersection of Knoxlyn Rd and US Rt. 30 Chambersburg Pike by the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Gen. John Buford’s cavalry division, against Major General Henry Heth’s division of A. P. Hill’s corps as they march towards Gettysburg.
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10:30 am: Major General John Reynolds and two brigades of the Union First Corps infantry arrive and join the line along McPherson Ridge.
A bullet would kill Reynolds and Major General Abner Doubleday would take command of the Union First Corps.
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A bullet would kill Reynolds and Major General Abner Doubleday would take command of the Union First Corps.
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#OTDIH in 1832, teacher, journalist, abolitionist, lecturer, & women’s rights activist, Maria W. Stewart (1803—December 17, 1879) gave her second public lecture “Why Sit Ye Here & Die” in Franklin Hall in Boston, the meeting site of the New England Anti-Slavery Society.
📸: The cover of the book “Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches” (1987) edited & introduced by Marilyn Richardson.
“Born free in 1803, Stewart was the first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and Black, she was also the first Black American woman to make public lectures, as well as to lecture about women's rights & make a public anti-slavery speech.”
