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PICKETT’S CHARGE, I.—LOOKING DOWN TIIE UNION LINES FROM THE “CLUMP OF TREES.”
General Hancock and staff are seen In the left center of the picture.—This and the two pictures that follow arefrom the Cyelorama of Gettysburg , by permission of the National Panorama Company.
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