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The Battle of Gettysburg is the bloodiest battle in our nation`s history. It was a turning point in the Civil War.

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= **The Battle of Gettysburg Facts:** =

> > They reached the line but failed to break through. Over 10,000 troops were killed or wounded. This became known as Pickett's charge.
 * The Battle of Gettysburg was fought between the Union and Confederate armies near the city of Gettysburg, PA.
 * The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle of the Civil War.
 * General Robert E. Lee was in charge of the Confederate Army. [[image:http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTa3FkP4d53GUUxX0daoaNgBMXdhwvlg_7dDd5RZ2awtXpwSbJr width="182" height="182" caption="General Lee"]]
 * The Confederate Army was made up of people from the Southern States.
 * They wore gray uniforms.
 * They were also called the Rebel Army.
 * He had 75,000 men when he started the battle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">General George G. Meade was in charge of the Union Army[[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMVDb0iE0nKcSbWmj8d6YjARZfDaxvETnBgGBU7Bd_MtN5b8gQKw width="160" height="248" caption="General Meade"]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Union Army was made up of people from the Northern States.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">They wore blue uniforms.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">They were also called the Yankees.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">He had 97,000 men when he started the battle.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The Battle of Gettysburg began on July 1, 1863 and lasted 3 days.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Day 1: The Confederate troops attacked and pushed the Union troops out of the town of Gettysburg.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Day 2: Both sides spent most of the day getting ready for the battle. At 4 o'clock the south attacked the north on Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge. At the end of the day the south had to pull back.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Day 3: At 1 o'clock the south began to fire cannons at the north. At 2 o'clock General George Pickett led over 15,000 Confederate troops across an open field toward the Union line.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">During the battle, over 51,000 troops were killed on both sides. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">More people fought and died during this battle than any other battle on American soil.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">After the battle, General Lee took his troops and retreated back to Maryland and the south.


 * Boys in the Civil War! **

It might have been called The Boys' War. Authorities differ, and statistics bristle in the controversy, but this is the offering of the //Photographic History of the Civil// //War://
 * ** More than 2,000,000 Federal soldiers were twenty-one or under (of a total of some 2,700,000)-More than 1,000,000 were eighteen or under.About 800,000 were seventeen or under. **
 * ** About 200,000 were sixteen or under. **
 * ** About 100,000 were fifteen or under. **
 * ** Three hundred were thirteen or under-most of these fifers or drummers, but regularly enrolled, and sometimes fighters. **
 * ** Twenty-five were ten or under. **


 * Bibliography and Links for Battle of Gettysburg:**

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Rebels & Yankees. The Battlefields of the Civil War. by William C. Davis. Chapter 9. Pages 155-175


 * Where is Gettysburg ?**

Gettysburg is in central Pennsylvania near Harrisburg.

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