A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cook had virtually no interest in the Civil War until 1987, when she toured the battle site at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

库克是密西根州大激流市人，她直到1987年，才真正对内战产生兴趣；当时，她去宾夕法尼亚州的葛底斯堡的战争遗址参观。

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By June 30, both armies were converging upon Gettysburg and the battle, which would be the turning point of the war, was set to commence.

到6月30日，南北两军都向葛底士堡一地集结，而这场最终成为美国内战转折点的战斗也因此一触即发。

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The battle began at 5.30 a.m., when shots were exchanged over Marsh Creek. In the face of Buford's resistance, Heth pushed on cautiously until he reached a point about two miles west of Gettysburg.

上午5点30分，双方在沼泽溪一带交火，面对巴福德的顽强抵御，海斯步步为营，谨慎前进，一直推进到葛底士堡大约2英里之处，随后他以两个旅的兵力列队进攻。

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In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Twenty thousand Confederate soldiers were killed,wounded, or listed as missing in the battle of Gettysburg.

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The day after the battle of Gettysburg, Union forces defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg,Mississippi.

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Lee's army was on the march north to the fateful battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln wrote a letter commenting on the arrest of a leading Confederate sympathizer legislator (or "Copperheads" as they were then known), U.S. Rep. Clement L. Valladigham (Democrat of Ohio).

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In 1974 Michael Shaara published a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels, about the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Rothermel's "Battle of Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge, " which measures 16 feet high and 32 feet wide, and is the largest depiction of the battle on one canvas.

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