through great intelligence and great intuition, george meade will make the most momentous decision of his life and determine that union army will remain in gettysburg and not be retreating and the army of the potomac will await for robert e. lee to attack the next day. he had a fairly good estimation of where that attack will come and who is going to be involved in it. all of the military minds are at work into the late night hours of july 2, 1863. the next morning around 7:00 a.m., we have one of the most coincidental, amazing, and tragic stories associated with the townspeople of gettysburg and it involves these three people we see on the screen and what happens on the other side of the door. the person we will start off with is the gentleman in the upper left-hand corner and his name is wesley culp. born and raised in gettysburg. when he was a teenager, he wanted to get away from home and go flex his wings, he and a bunch of friends moved to virginia. when the civil war erupts, he decides he will fight for his adopted state, not his native state. a pennsylvanian fighting for virgin