If your talking about Generals it was John Reynolds.
he died because they shot him at the first battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg did not start the Gettysburg Address. The Gettysburg Address was a speech given on the field where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought, because they were creating a cemetery out of part of that field in which to inter the soldiers who fought and died there.
November 19, 1863, in Gettysburg Pennsylvania, where the battle of Gettysburg had been fought. 17 acres were subsequently dedicated to the cemetery and memorial to the men who had fought and died at Gettysburg, by the federal government, near the battleground.
What you call "the Gettysburg" as actually called "the battle of Gettysburg". The Union (the Federal government) "won" the battle and it was more importantly a political victory and regarded as the beginning of the end for the southern cause. An enormous number of soldiers died in the battle and still the numbers rank near the top of the number of casualties in any battle or war fought by Americans.
What you call "the Gettysburg" as actually called "the battle of Gettysburg". The Union (the Federal government) "won" the battle and it was more importantly a political victory and regarded as the beginning of the end for the southern cause. An enormous number of soldiers died in the battle and still the numbers rank near the top of the number of casualties in any battle or war fought by Americans.
53,000
He wrote the Gettysburg Address to talk about the many soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
He died in 1821 where he was exiled after his last battle at Waterloo in Belgium.
They were dedicating the Gettysburg Cemetery at the place where all the soldiers from both sides had died at the battle of Gettysburg
Both the Confederate and the Union soldiers that died while fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg.
The effect was all the men died!
President Lincoln gave a short speech called the Gettysburg Address at the battle site a few months after the battle. Basically, Lincoln said that Gettysburg would never be forgotten, and that it would be a battle museum , in a way.