American Civil War: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_from_Gettysburg" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Retreat from Gettysburg">Retreat from Gettysburg</a>: The Confederate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Army of Northern Virginia">Army of Northern Virginia</a> under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg#Confederate_retreat" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Gettysburg">withdraws from the battlefield</a> after losing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a>, signaling an end to his last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_campaign" id="mw_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gettysburg campaign">invasion</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_United_States#American_Civil_War" id="mw_Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern United States">North</a>.<sup about="#mwt54" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_4#cite_note-8" id="mw_g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw_w">[8]</span></a></sup>
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