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The Battle of Gettysburg was a meeting engagement, a military term meaning that two opposing armies actually run into each other without full intelligence. Most historians agree that the battle was actually started by Buford's cavlary (Union Army of the Potomac) who were screening on the Cashtown pike just west of the town of Gettysburg. The first shot was fired from a 3 inch parrot cannon from Calef's battery (United States Army) at about 10 AM 1 July 1863.

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