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Conflict● LowSep 17 · Sep 17, 2026, 6:34 PM

At Gettysburg, a Reporter Captured a Nation’s Loss, and His Own

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Samuel Wilkeson Jr. filed a report for The Times from the battlefield. Then he went looking for a Union officer, his son.

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