The were detouring from their march against Washington to commandeer shoes.
General Meade made the Confederates retreat from Gettysburg on October 1, 1863.
No, he was not connected with either of the Bull Run battles. He was over in the West until the liberation of the Mississipi in July 1863, and then at Chattanooga. In March 1864, he was appointed General-in-Chief of all the Union armies.
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Major General Joseph Hooker had approximately 134,000 troops in the Army of the Potomac on March 31, 1863. He outnumbered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia by a comfortable margin.
The US Civil War Battle of Gettysburg took place on the first three days of July in 1863. The combined total of casualties of the North and the South reached over 50,000 troops. Union General George Meade won the battle over General Lee's Confederate forces.
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80,000 Union and 75,000 Confederate.
The Battle of Gettysburg happened in Gettysburg Pennsylvania in June of 1863.
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Gettysburg was fought in 1863.