the room great intelligence and great intuition, george meade will make the most momentous decision of his life and determined that union army will remain in gettysburg and not to 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 at 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 town's people 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 leslie 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 pennsylvania fighting fo

in other words, writing something critical about george g mead. before banishing him from cap which was sort of his right, mead forced him to march their camp, carrying a sign reading liebler of the press. -- libeler of the press. mead boasts in a letter to his wife that the sentence, as he puts it, was carried out to the delight of the or me -- of the whole army. journalists reacted by ignoring mead and their subsequent dispatches, except to report his failures. although he continues technically to command the army of the potomac for the duration journalists began treating him as if you no longer existed. later, the first generation of wartime memoirs, many compiled by former war correspondent, did likewise. unlike sherman again too big to be ignored, mead's hostility contributed to a future in visibility, at least in the rank he may have thought he deserved and maybe dead. after 1863, the reporters who had been or became his victims wrote him out of the civil war. his troops may have been baptized in blood, their general was buried in ink, or at