This day in History: Largest battle of the American Civil War begins
General Robert E. Lee arrays his Confederate forces at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to destroy General George Meade's Union army. The three-day conflagration will result in both sides counting some 23,000 casualties each, a Union victory, and a calamitous retreat back to Virginia for Lee.
...my family found them damn yankees to be totally inhospitable and vowed to never go back for a visit.

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!