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tains. It was not Mother Nature that rendered this coronation, however. Rather it svas some of those of the present generation who, while recognizing their “poor power to add or detract”, sought to honor the 1,234 members of the Vermont Brigade who became casualties at this intersection in order “that (this) nation might live”. Heavy stuff! Easy to dismiss as sentimental hype amidst the cynicism of a time when honors are copiously afforded for actions whose merit may be dubious at best. But these Green Mountain boys, the import of their deeds, and the appropriateness of perpetuating their memory are the genuine article. The facts in brief, are these: Flag Draped Vermont
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The date: May 5th 1864. The time: about 12 Noon. The event: U.S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac were in danger of being cut in two by A.P. Hill’s Corps of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, pushing relentlessly eastward, seemingly unstoppable along the Plank Road; in Hill’s path, 3,000 men from Vermont. Not the first time the Union Army was in such a fix, but it was however, together with a repeat encounter with Confederate General James Longstreet the following day, pretty much the last. The significance: Lee had forced any
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