MARY R. MALONEY "DEAR KATE" An account of the tragic aftermath of the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds, U.S.A., on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the most poignant and yet scarcely known tragedies of the Civil War was the death of Major General John Fulton Reynolds of

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