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One of the najväčších bitiek občianskej war bola nesporne battle during Gettysburg. Nielen, that there went out nádej pre Konfederáciu on úspešnú inváziu to severných štátov, but konfederačná army have suffered to behold the form of catastrophe straty, which she couldn't in this period nijako're meant to replace. But the quantity of vojakov, pri Gettysburg were killed and j štyria brigádni general Konfederácie. The first of them was brigádny general William Barksdale. This native of Tennessee vyštudoval right, but nurtured sa radšej, as a journalist. Attended sa ako dobrovoľník Mexican war. After vojne sa went into politics and got the sa to the Congress for štát Mississippi.
After začiatku secesie vstúpil to milície of the state of Mississippi, but čoskoro prešiel in the rank of colonel in the konfederačnej army. In bitke pri * Rune viedol 13. walking mississipský regiment. With this plukom fought aj in Sedemdňovej bitke and another stretnutiach. When the pri Savage Station killed veliteľa his brigade general Richard Griffin, has taken over the velenie a whole brigade. So my brigade graduated from a fight pri Fredericksburg and blast pri Antietam. To Gettysburg arrived his brigade ako súčasť McLawsovej divízie after prvom day of the fight. Barksdale's brigade would attack pozície III. unionistického corps. Under svedkov it was one of the najstatočnejších útokov all občianskej the army. During the entire attack Barksdale nezostúpil of a horse and poháňal your mužov to nadľudským výkonom. Drvivý attack prerazil pozície act unionistickej divízie, but depleted brigade had to immediately čeliť counterattack.
Already during the attack utrpel Barksdale zranenie knees, but odmietol sa dať ošetriť. During nasledujúceho counterattack utrpel zranenie the other foot, when it zasiahol fragment delostreleckej munície. Even this zranenie him nedonútilo opustiť my zúfalo bojujúcu brigade. Posledné zranenie utrpel in time, ever explored his unit started opúšťať the field of battle under the ťažkým protiútokom. To hrude him zasiahla guľka that it hit from a donkey. Stihol takes svojmu hand zašeptať link manželke and deťom and upadol to bezvedomia. His soldiers missed him from bojiska out to get, so they found him unionistickí soldiers, ktorí find that konfederačný general takes lives. Bol prenesený to poľnej hospital, where on the second day in the morning zomrel. Brigádny general Barksdale is buried in the cintoríne Greenwood in the town of Jackson, Mississippi.
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