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# Veterans of the Union, the Northerners, and Veterans of the Confederacy, the Southerners, at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/veterany-soiuza-severiane-i-vetarany-konfederatsii-iuzhane-na-prazdnovanii-50-letiia-bitvy-pri-gettisberge-v-1913-godu/
- Published: 2024-05-14T08:33:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:48.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Society

Had the Battle of Gettysburg ended otherwise, we might today have had two separate states, the Northern States and the Confederacy.

The Russian Empire, in the person of Alexander II, supported the Union and the legitimate President Lincoln from the very outset.