Charles Edward Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020)

Country Music legend Charlie Daniels, best known for his monster 1979 hit
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died Monday at Summit Medical Center
in Hermitage, Tenn., where doctors determined his cause of death as a
hemorrhagic stroke.

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Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921 – July 1, 2020) 

Broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game
show host, and music composer. A regular television presence from
the 1940s through the 1990s, he had several successful roles on
morning television, prime time television, and late night television.

Downs served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar
from 1957 to 1962, co-host of the NBC News program Today from
1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to
1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to
1999. Downs died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

One of the largest military conflicts in North American history began on July
1, 1863, when Union and Confederate forces collided at Gettysburg, PA. The 
epic battle lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by General
Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

Robert Edward Lee
(January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870)

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The Gettysburg Battlefield as it looks today on the rolling hills to the
west of town.