During this battle, a general broke with a hook formation to acquire higher ground at the Peach Orchard. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this 1863 battle during which Daniel Sickles was hit by a cannon ball. An address given after this Civil War battle opens “Four score and seven years ago.”
ANSWER: Battle of Gettysburg [accept the Gettysburg Address]
[10h] Sickles advanced his Third Corps into Confederate forces led by McLaws and this general. This general, nicknamed “Old War Horse,” was scapegoated for the loss at Gettysburg after he became a Republican.
ANSWER: James Longstreet
[10m] In 1874, Longstreet suppressed the White League’s anti-Reconstruction revolt in this city. Benjamin Butler occupied this largest Confederate city after it was bloodlessly captured by David Farragut in 1862.
ANSWER: New Orleans
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