YES
Its because we must continue to fight for our freedom
No, he was the commander in cheif and not allowed to fight in the war. Abraham Lincon did the gettysburg address at the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Yes people fighting for the Union, and people fighting for the Confederacy, went to Gettysburg to fight for their countries.
The two main decisive events at the Battle of Gettysburg was the fight for Little Round Top, and Pickett's Charge.
Because we must continue to fight for freedom?
The Battle of Gettysburg happened in Pennsylvania.
America fought itself it was North against the South. The North was the Union and the South was the Confederates.
No one who was a witness to the Battle of Gettysburg would doubt either the honor or the valor of the Army of Northern Virgina. The Confederate infantry who fought there belong to the Ages.
YES
Washington led Patriot forces in the American Revolution. He did not fight at the Battle of Gettysburg.
No, they were not a state then.
In some ways. It proved that the South could not win when it came to fight on northern land. If the South couldn't win in the North then they could not win the war.
Its because we must continue to fight for our freedom
Neither side planned to fight a battle there. The South went there looking for shoes. The North stumbled upon them hoping to block their way to Washington.
Many US Civil War historians cite the Confederate loss at the Battle of Gettysburg as a definitive battle in the Civil War. Lee abandoned all future efforts to attack Northern territory. Lee's main objectives after Gettysburg was to fight a defensive war. Both he and Jefferson Davis believed that the longer the South could continue to be viable, the better the chances of the North to end it aggression towards the South.
He was a Union cavalry general.