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Developer hopes Gettysburg will be new casinos address

17 Aug 2005

It has been over 142 years since the Battle of Gettysburg was fought during the American Civil War, and now a new battle is being waged where Union and Confederate troops fiercely fought each other and where President Abraham Lincoln later delivered his famous Gettysburg Address. This battle, however, is not about state's rights or slavery; a group of developers interested in casinos want to build one within cannon-shot of the famous battlefield and memorial and residents, historians, teachers and Civil War re-enactors are teaming up to protect what is considered by most Americans to be hallowed ground from being what they say would be the marginalization of an important historical site.

The casinos idea has started what could be a "mini civil war" among the town's residents; the charge in favor of the casinos project is being led not by hardened generals but a local businessman and a group of partners allied with him. They want to build a 200-room hotel and casino with over 3,000 slot machines, capitalizing on the name and history of the area to draw in a different kind of tourist to Gettysburg - casinos gamblers rather than tourists. However, the No Casinos Gettysburg group is determined to scuttle the casinos project before it can get past the drawing board by sending it the way of the Confederate States of America and black slavery.

Most military historians consider the Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1-3, 1863, to be the turning point in the American Civil War. It represented a gamble - which is appropriate terminology for the current casinos conflict - by Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia to take the war to Union territory; the South had suffered repeated attacks by federal forces and the Confederates thought the tide was with them after the success of the Battle of Chancellorsville in early May 1863. During the three days of battle, the Union's Army of the Potomac lost 3,070 men killed, while 14,497 Union soldiers were wounded; the Confederates lost 2,592 men while 12,706 were wounded. While the casinos idea is only in the beginning stages, the No Casinos Gettysburg group wants to keep the memory of visitors to Gettysburg focused on the history of the area without trivializing history.

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