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The battle for Little Round Top, a close one, destroyed the potential for the Confederates to roll up the Union flank and to post artillery in a position that enfiladed the Union defenses on Cemetery Ridge. Thereafter, Lee gave up on flanking the enemy and prepared a disastrous assault on the Union center.

two pivotal events doomed the conferates. 1) lt. general Richard Ewell's inattention to lee's 'request' to take Culp Hill, a strategic union position and 2) custers' small 400 men Michigan cavalry detachment route of j.e.b. stuarts 4,000 men mounted unit just as they were about to ride around meade's north flank to cut the union line in half from the rear. without knowledge of this, lee sent his main force under pickett into the center of the union line as stated above.

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