I would say it was Jeb Stuart
False, Jeb Stuart was the Southern Cavalry Officer involved in Gettysburg. The answer is John Buford.
General Heth's Division ran into the Buford's Cavalry Division on the Cashtown Pike just west of the Town of Gettysburg. The Union Cavalry brigade that first engaged Heth's division was commanded by General Gamble.
General Jeb Stuart
Brigadier General John Buford and his cavalry held up Henry Heth on the Chambersburg Pike early on July 1, the first day of the battle.
When he sent two brigades into Gettysburg in search of shoes, they encountered Union Calvary under Brigadier General John Buford.
Initally, General Bufford's cavalry stopped Heath's advance along the Chambersburg Pike west of Gettysburg until Gen. Reynold's First Corp arrived.
About 75,000.
Engaged in that case means to be involved in battle. When two armies meet on a battlefield they are said to have "engaged" each other.
The battle of Gettysburg was one of the few battles, where almost both entire armies were engaged in the Civil War. Roughly 90,000 Union troops were present at the battle while roughly 79,000 men from the confederacy were engaged at Gettysburg.
Lee commanded about 65,000 men at Chancellorsville.
At Chancellorsville the Army of Northern Virginia(Confederate) commanded by General Robert E. Lee engaged and defeated the Army of the Potomac(Union) commanded by General Joseph Hooker.
At Chancellorsville the Army of Northern Virginia(Confederate) commanded by General Robert E. Lee engaged and defeated the Army of the Potomac(Union) commanded by General Joseph Hooker.
No, he did not fight in the West. The Confederate garrison at Vicksburg was commanded by John C. Pemberton, under overall command of Joseph E. Johnston, whose orders were often in conflict with those of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. On the day Vicksburg surrendered, Lee was engaged in the Battle of Gettysburg.