• The Battle of Gettysburg was held in Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania • The battle started on July 1st‚ 1863 to July 3rd‚ 1863. It started at 4 pm on July 1st but on July 2nd‚ Longstreet was ordered by Commander Robert E. Lee to attack. Although he was instructed to attack‚ he was very slow to get his men and weapons ready and finally started to attack around 4 pm and the fighting came to an end at about 10:30 pm. The next morning on July 3rd the fighting started again at 4:30 am and finally the battle
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Collin Greenwood Mr. Baker Honors History 24 April 2000 The Battle of Gettysburg " The Turning Point of the Civil War Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. This is the most famous and important Civil War Battle that occurred over three hot summer days‚ July 3‚ 1863‚ around the small market town of Gettysburg‚ Pennsylvania. More importantly Gettysburg was the clash between the two major American Cultures of their time: the North and the South. The causes of the Civil
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battle was the largest battle ever fought on American land during the time‚ and it was all started because of the great feud between the North and South. General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates all had defeated the Union forces at Chancellorsville on May 6‚ 1863 and he had decided to go on and bring his army into Pennsylvania. Lee had planned to get his army together in Gettysburg. On the morning of July 1‚ General Lee’s army brawled with General George Gordon Meade’s army of the Potomac. The
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Major General Ambrose E. Burnside By: Hruday Patel 1st Period Major General Ambrose E. Burnside * May 23‚ 1824 - Ambrose E. Burnside is born near Liberty‚ Indiana. * July 1‚ 1847 - Ambrose E. Burnside graduates from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at the eighteenth rank out of forty-seven students‚ and is commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 2nd Artillery. * November 1‚ 1853 - Ambrose E. Burnside resigns his commission in the U.S. Army and organizes Bristol Rifle
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Pennsylvania. Scavenging and searching for food and supplies‚ Robert E. Lee‚ who was the commander of the Confederate army‚ marched his troops to invade union territory. Dangerously scavenging for food‚ Lee was abruptly stopped by union forces which held him there till dusk. Ambushed by union troops‚ Lee faced 88‚000 reinforcements led by General George Meade. “Under General George Meade‚ the army marched northward to intercept Lee‚ its movements limited by the need to protect Washington” (Compton)
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were killed in total by both sides. However‚ was Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War? Generals Lee’s objective in the battle of Gettysburg was to draw the Union army out in the open and manipulate them with better leadership skills. General Lee thought that since he was a better general a difference of a few thousand men wouldn’t affect the
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Civil War history. One is Robert E. Lee‚ the commander of the Confederate army‚ and the other is James Longstreet‚ a Confederate general. Both men play key parts in the battle of Gettysburg and their choices help direct the course of the whole war‚ both in their favor and against. While they are fighting on the same side‚ there are differences that distinguish them and cause conflict between them‚ and these differences will determine major turning points in the war. Robert E. Lee was one of the most beloved
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The Privileged Vs. The self-Reliant In the essay “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts‚” Bruce Catton claims that the two Civil War generals represented “two diametrically opposed elements in American life.” For Catton‚ Lee symbolized an aristocrat‚ while Grant embodied a democrat. This opposition does still exist in the country today. As Catton observes‚ Lee came from a “privileged” class from which “the county would get its leadership.” “He embodied a way of life that had come down through
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George Pickett was a major general for the Confederate Army best known for his role in “Pickett’s Charge‚” the unsuccessful assault against Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. Pickett was born on January 16‚ 1825 in Richmond‚ Virginia to Robert and Mary Pickett‚ the oldest of their eight children. Remembered as a jovial young man‚ he attended West Point Military Academy and graduated last in his class in 1846. His classmates included Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson‚ George McClellan‚ and George
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The battle of Gettysburg took place in Pennsylvania of 1863‚ the battle lasted three days many lives were taken in both sides. Robert E. Lee was the general the South‚ they had invaded the North and was trying to defeat the Union Army. However‚ the outcome was Union Army held them off and sent the Confederated’s retreating. Many reasons went into the Norths win against the South. In document b sources estimated the number of casualties at the battle of Gettysburg for both union and confederate
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