General Heth's men went into the town searching for shoes, and brushed into Union cavalry under John Buford.
Lincoln made the "Gettysburg Address"
He made it after the battle of Gettysburg.
Right before the battle President Lincoln gave his well-known Gettysburg Speech.
The reason Gettysburg was so horrific, was the fact that about 24,000 Americans died. That's more than all the dead from the Iraq war. Yet Gettysburg was only a battle.
the battle of Gettysburg was a short battle between gen. meade and gen. lee. what made it happen is they ran into each other. gen. lee(confederacy) was told not to fight the union. but he did anyway for the shoes and clothes and supplies
General Meade made the Confederates retreat from Gettysburg on October 1, 1863.
he died wile pooping
Pickett's Charge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg demonstrated battlefield tactics that had already been seen in earlier battles such as the Battle of Frederickburg. At Gettysburg. the power of an elevated defensive position held by the Federals in conjunction with artillery used as a defensive deterrent was made clear. Union artillery fire, first used on a long range basis hurt the Confederates. As their lines managed to advance closer. the cannons used cannister fire to severely create large casualties. The dangers of frontal assaults were also demonstrated. And as at Fredericksburg, soldiers attacking a well defended position, were heavily hurt by rifle fire.
Gettysburg was the turning point in the American Civil War. Lee made numerous mistakes that cost him the battle.
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the turning point of the war because on May or July 1-3,1863 for the first time, the Union defeated Robert E. Lee's seemingly immortal troops. The Battle of Gettysburg was a mistake, the Union troops and Confederates accidentally ran into each other. For 1-2 days the South seemed to be winning the battles, but since Lee's shortage of cavalry (he split up his forces before the battle) he had no way of knowing Union positions, and so his assaults did not work as they were planned.
the civil warAnother Answer:The deadliest battle on US Soil was Gettysburg. Other battles had more casualties or made more men unfit to fight, but Gettysburg put more in the grave.