What battle started after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 1

After Gettysburg in the east there was no major battle until the Battle of the Wilderness in early May, 1864. In the autumn of 1863 in the east there was a lot of maneuvering during the Mine Run Campaign. The Confederates took up an exceptionally strong position behind Mine Run, and the Yankees declined to attack this position, and withdrew. Lee did not feel strong enough to attack because he had detached General Longstreet and most of his First Corps to reinforce the Rebel Army in the west.

In the Civil War "the west" was the area between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. In the west after Gettysburg there was the Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20, 1863. Longstreet's troops from Lee's army arrived in time to help secure a Confederate victory. Then Longstreet was detached from the main western army to try to recapture Knoxville, Tennessee, which he failed to do. Also in eastern Tennessee in the fighting around Chattanooga the Yankees won the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in November 1863. That finished the 1863 campaigns in the west, until 1864. Around the same day as the beginning of the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia, the Yankee Army from Chattanooga began to move southeast toward Atlanta, in the west. By then Longstreet had been recalled with his First Corps to rejoin Lee's Army in Virginia.