Gen. Lewis Armistead and Gen. Winfield Hancock were friends who served together in the U.S Army. But when Virginia seceded from the Union, Armistead joined the Confederacy with his state. The two friends ended up on the same battlefields in Pennsylvania.
NPR's Amy Walters produced this story from Gettysburg National Military Park.
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