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Re: When It Might Have Mattered

For William C. Oates it was more personal than you suggested. He never forgot the loss of his brother on Little Round Top, Lieut. John A. Oates.

Col. Oates returned to the battlefield and marked positions reached by his regiment, as well as the point where his brother was wounded. However, Gettysburg park authorities would not allow him or any other Southerner to place permanent markers on the site. Federal markers were allowed on the ground, and eventually an Alabama monument was placed two miles away from the site of the fighting. For William C. Oates, that was his most bitter defeat at Gettysburg.

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