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|place=[[United States of America]], [[Earth]]<ref name="tilatpdopjc">''Halo: Evolutions'', [[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]</ref>
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|commanders1=[[Colonel]] [[Wikipedia:Joshua Chamberlain|Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]]{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}
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*[[Wikipedia:20th Maine Infantry Regiment|Twentieth Maine regiment]]{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}
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*[[Wikipedia:15th Alabama Infantry Regiment|Fifteenth Alabama regiment]]{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}
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The '''American Civil War''' was a [[war|civil war]] in the [[United States of America]]. It was considered the "first".{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}

==War==
The American Civil War was the first time a team of photographers took images of war.<ref name="jakecouragexbox">''Xbox.com'': Jake Courage (defunct, [https://archives.halopedia.org/halo3/jakecourage/ Archived])</ref>
===Battle of Gettysburg===
Colonel [[Wikipedia:Joshua Chamberlain|Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain]] led the [[Wikipedia:20th Maine Infantry Regiment|Twentieth Maine regiment]] during the [[Wikipedia:Battle of Gettysburg|battle of Gettysburg]]. He was ordered to defend the left flank of the Union line. The [[Wikipedia:15th Alabama Infantry Regiment|Fifteenth Alabama regiment]] charged up a hill referred to as [[Wikipedia:Little Round Top|Little Round Top]], which Joshua Chamberlain and the Maine regiment were a top. They were out of ammunition and exhausted. Chamberlain ordered the regiment to "fix bayonets" and counter charged them.{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}

==Aftermath==
It is believed that Chamberlain's counter charge saved the Union line, and possibly helped decide the outcome of the war.{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}

===Distant references to the war===
{{Quote|Fix bayonets|An unheard remark by [[Preston Cole]] at the [[Battle of Harvest]], likely a reference to the Battle of Gettysburg.{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}}}
During the Battle of Harvest in [[2525]], Preston Cole remarked "Fix bayonets", something speculated in the ''[[Historical/Psychological Analysis of Cole, Preston J.]]'' to be a reference to Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Battle of Gettysburg.{{Ref/Reuse|tilatpdopjc}}

The [[Officers' club]] of the {{Class|Paris|heavy frigate}} {{UNSCShip|Gettysburg}} had Civil War era tin daguerreotypes that displayed a battlefield with cavalry, cannons and charging men.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: First Strike|Chapter=31}}

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{Fm}}
*''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''
**''[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]''

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