Antietam
Confederate soldiers were headed to Gettysburg Pennsylvania seeking shoes. Inadvertently they encountered Union soldiers. This was the inception of the Battle of Gettysburg.
To penetrate into Pennsylvania, win a big battle on Northern soil, and impress the British, who were treating this campaign as the test of Confederate viability.
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia were planning to make a significant raid on Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Northern forces of the Army of the Potomac were sent to not allow that to happen. By strictly chance the two opposing armies met at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a three day battle in which the North and Union General George Meade won. This forced Lee to retreat back to Virginia.
Grant's Army employed 24,531 soldiers, Confederate's 16,171.
At the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, the Confederate army suffered 28,000 casualties. This figure represents both wounded and killed soldiers.
Confederate soldiers were headed to Gettysburg Pennsylvania seeking shoes. Inadvertently they encountered Union soldiers. This was the inception of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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The invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, which led to the battle of Gettysburg.
To penetrate into Pennsylvania, win a big battle on Northern soil, and impress the British, who were treating this campaign as the test of Confederate viability.
2,160 Confederate soldiers were wounded at Chattanooga
40,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
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Union 460 Confederate 387 That is just the death count from the battle. Total casualties (Killed, MIA, Etc.) Union 2896 Confederate 1982
There were about 40,360.
Around 70,000.
194,026 were listed as "wounded in battle".
Abraham Lincoln was the one that delivered the Gettysburg address. It was given in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 19, 1863. It was a dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery roughly four months after Union soldiers defeated Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg.