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Gettysburg’s dark secret.

With this week’s 150th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, we will be reminded of that epic struggle’s famous highlights — the missed Confederate opportunity to achieve victory on the first day, the struggle for Little Round Top on day two and the battle’s dramatic climax on July 3 with Pickett’s Charge.

A closer examination of the historical record has uncovered a dark consequence of the battle that, until recently, was little known. After poring through numerous letters, diaries and the official correspondence of Confederate soldiers, historian David G. Smith reveals that as the Army of Northern Virginia moved into Pennsylvania in late June 1863, it began to round up scores of free blacks and escaped slaves to be sent south.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion...611cdf079.html