The “glorious” battle of Gettysburg was over. Gen. George Gordon Meade, builder of Barnegat Lighthouse and commander of the Army of the Potomac, had stopped the invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. From this moment, armchair generals and even Abraham Lincoln began to criticize Meade for not being more aggressive in pursuing Lee to deliver a knockout blow.
The Jersey men at Gettysburg didn’t know the future and just followed their orders. Thirty-three-year-old Alanson A.
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