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Federal Forces were solidly entrenched in easily defensible positons on the high ground with good interior lines of communication, able to readily reinforce threatened points. They were well supplied, and had good morale, with the added incentive of defending their home territory. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee ordered Pickett to mount what was, in essence, a suicidal assault against the center of the Union line, uphill, against superior numbers of well-motivated defenders.

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