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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A large monument sits in grass beside three cannons.

Gettysburg Monument

A monument to Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, stands at Gettysburg National Military Park, Pa., where Union soldiers held off a Confederate charge during the Civil War.

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