The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign (Jon M. Nese, Jeffrey J. Harding - GC) July 2021 as the principal purpose of

as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire

they planned to begin a war to end slavery in the United States

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Museum of the Confederacy

Even after the Lincoln administration decided to apply the law of war

The Weather Gods Curse the Gettysburg Campaign (Jon M. Nese, Jeffrey J. Harding - GC) July 2021 as the principal purpose ofBy Jeffrey J. Harding and Jon M. Nese Foreward by Carol Reardon & Afterword by Gregory Forbes As the nations future hung in the balance, the Weather Gods delivered a wrath of fury on Union and Confederate forces throughout the Gettysburg Campaign. First, record breaking heat and humidity wore down the warring armies during ungodly forced marches. Next, relentless storms plagued the soldiers with resultant muddy slogs on nearly impassable roads. As the