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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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With five brigades, it’s the largest division in either army.
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This sets off a chain reaction down the 2 mile Union line.
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Major General Oliver Otis Howard, one-armed commander of the Eleventh Corps, had
reserved a third smaller division to fortify Cemetery Hill incase of retreat
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Ewell decides against it.
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He decides to stay and fight the next day from the strong defensive position.
More than 50,000 men would fall during the #BattleofGettysburg, a scale of suffering never seen before or since on American soil.