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The first day at Gettysburg—more significant than simply a prelude to the bloody second and third days—ranks as the 23rd-largest battle of the war by number of troops engaged. About one quarter of Meade's army (22,000 men) and one third of Lee's army (27,000) were engaged. [ 74 ]
An 1863 oval-shaped map depicting the Gettysburg Battlefield during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of Gettysburg residents at the time of the battle A November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration showing Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American ...
The three-day battle in and around Gettysburg resulted in the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War—between 46,000 and 51,000. [86] In conjunction with the Union victory at Vicksburg on July 4, Gettysburg is frequently cited as the war's turning point .
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg. It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North. The charge was named after Major General George Pickett, one of the Confederate Army's division commanders ...
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5. Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3. Pursuit of Lee July 5–24. At Catlett's Station, Va., July 25 to September 24. Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Reopening Tennessee River October 26–29. Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28–29.
The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.Locations of military engagements extend from the 4-acre (1.6 ha) site of the first shot [G 1] at Knoxlyn Ridge [1] on the west of the borough, to East Cavalry Field on the east.
Battle of Chancellorsville May 1–5. Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1–3. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 5–24; Battle of Hagerstown, Md., July 11–13. Ordered to Department of the South and sailed for Folly Island, S.C., August 1. Siege operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C., August 9 ...
His maps reflect and appear to draw heavily on the eyewitness work done by local officials and community members (such as David Wills of Gettysburg, who had commissioned a survey of burial locations within two weeks of the battle). [1] The Gettysburg map, published in 1864 by "S.G. Elliott," shows the location of 8,352 individual burial ...