Pickett's Charge

Little Round Top Gettysburg, PA.

Pickett's Charge was repulsed on this date in 1863 on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Union troops triumphed over the Confederate soldiers, in the bloodiest battle of America's Civil War. There were some 51,000 casualties recorded – 7,000 dead, the rest wounded or missing. Though the war went on for nearly two more years, the Gettysburg Campaign was considered to be its turning point.

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