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The Summer That Saved Democracy: What 1863 Teaches Us About 2025 - Lewis County Democrats
On July 4th, 1863, two things happened that would determine whether the American experiment would survive or collapse. In Pennsylvania, the last Confederate soldiers were retreating from Gettysburg after three days of devastating battle. A thousand miles away in Mississippi, Vicksburg surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, giving the Union control…