opening lines.

possible opening lines for my episode:

1. The Battle of Gettysburg was to be a decisive battle in the career of General Ambrose Powell Hill.

2. Day one of the Battle of Gettysburg and General Ambrose Powell Hill is confined to bed, struck down by yet another outbreak of his nineteen year battle with gonorrhea.

3. Eager to live up to his lingering rival "Stonewall" Jackson, General Ambrose Powell had a lot riding on his shoulders in the days leading up to the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

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My research has led me to understand that General Hill most certainly contracted the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, and this was to be the main source of his erratic bouts of ill health during his tenure in during the Civil War.

Robertson, James I. General A.P. Hill: The Story of a Confederate General. New

York: Random House, 1987. p. 11