Almost eight decades after the end of the Revolutionary War (1783), there erupted another war (1861-1865). It was called the War Between the States, the War against Northern Aggression, Mr. Lincoln’s War, the War for the Union, the War for Abolition, the War for Separation, the War for States’ Rights, the War for Southern Independence, and the Civil War. Mostly known today as the Civil War, the conflict seared our national consciousness and forever changed what it means to be an American. At dawn of July 1, 1863, the war had been unfolding for more than two years. For the next three days in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Americans slew Americans in the most lethal battle ever fought on