Battle of Gettysburg

It marked the time when the US actually thought about freedom and what it meant. Many people before the Civil War didn't care about slavery, were against slavery or they thought it was okay (Mitch Hedberg joke, sorry). After the Reconstruction the US went back to its regular ways by passing the Jim Crow laws. They went back to the dark ages and stayed there until the Civil Rights movement began in the 1950s, almost 100 years after slavery was abolished. So the answer to your question would be it marked the time when the US opened their eyes for a moment and helped a race that was not their own out of slavery and pain. Smartest 6th grader in the World

3 mistakes that the confederacy made were: 1. If they had kept pushing, they would have taken the Union supply trains that were only a few hundred yards away. 2. Pickett's Charge...'nuff said 3. Lee did not retreat during the battle, causing them to lose most of their men.

The location of Gettysburg was important in the Battle Of Gettysburg because of where the town is located and the hills and ridges on the battlefield. If you ever saw a map of Gettysburg, or gone on Google Earth, you would see the town and then a bunch of roads leading in and out of the town. So basically if you wanted to come from Virginia to Pennsylvania, most likely you would have to come through Gettysburg.

The hills and ridges on the Battlefield is important too. Throughout the battle, Union troops were placed on the top of the hills and ridges. It's a whole lot easier running down a hill, then running up a hill. So when your being fired at, you would muchly rather be on higher elevation than running up. This really came in handy on the second day of the battle at Little Round Top. Where the 20th Maine had to defend Little Round Top, where there was a bayonet charge. And like I said, it's much easier running down a hill with bayonets then running up a hill.

It had strategic importance as a railway junction.

The Union came upon the Confederates as they were still preparing for an upcoming battle. Unaware of the large Union forces approaching, Robert E. Lee sent a reconnaisance party out around 5 AM on the morning of July 1, 1863. The first fighting began at about 7 AM when the Confederates encountered the leading Northern formations. While the South initially routed the Northern troops, they were eventually repulsed on the third day, with large losses on both sides.

General Lee was torn between fighting for his state and family and his country. In the end, he chose to fight for Virginia. South Carolina troops started the war by firing on Fort Sumter. So General Lee had to defend the state of Virginia from attack by Union forces.

He wanted to convince Union politicians to give up the war and allow the South to break free of the United States because the southern forces had the will and the capacity to continue the war and to even bring the havoc of war to their own back yard.

The battle of Gettysburg crippled the South so badly, that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a Northern state.
Lee's defeat prevented him from ever mounting another invasion of the North. The Union seized the initiative and never again relinquished it.

a lot of soldiers died and they did not have a lot of soldiers for the civil war....

To be honest the battle of Gettysburg was not really that important... as many would have us believe..

If I had to say anything the biggest lose was due to the lose of Stonewall Jackson. Which was a great moral lose for the Confederate Army... StoneWall Jackson was a much better leader then Robert E.. Lee ever was...(opinion) but Robert E. Lee should of left Gettysburg... when Jackson advised him... it was clearly a lose cause and a lose of Men that the Confederate army could ill afford....

Plus... It seemed up to that point that the South may actually win.. Since, they had a few big wins... and many people in the North were tired of sending their boys to fight, die and lose.... Clearly, Lincoln needed a win so that he could give his Emancipation Proclamation speech... to do so before Gettysburg would of made it seem like , as one person stated, as a death howl before they lose..

The British were watching to see if Lee would succeed in invading the North. If so, they were ready to give the Confederacy official recognition, and send military aid.

The unexpected Northern win at Antietam put that plan on the back-burner, and meanwhile gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, making it impossible for any foreign power to help the South without looking pro-slavery.

In the early days of the war, the South seemed to win every conflict. The blockade, the capture and control of the Mississippi and New Orleans and U.S.Grant turned the tide. While the South won more battles, the important ones went to the Yankees.

Civil Rights are bestowed upon each citizen of any village, town, city. They consist of basic rights each person possesses. The right to live, to be free of ownership by another and the right to participate in what makes them happy as long as that passion does not deviate from the societal norm for decent behavior. Social norms are very obvious and no one has a question as to how a person should conduct themselves while among others. That occurs in every animal family and societal unit and is innate in each of us.

The Slavery. The united states were separated into the bottom half and top half. The bottom half loved making black people work and they were making tons of money from it. The top half knew that that was wrong and disapprove it. They soon declared a battle for the black peoples rights and soon after the top half won. THANK HEAVENS!

The most casualties suffering from the English Civil War was Innocent Civilians who were beaten up for taxes for war to equip the soldiers to fight whether they supported that side or not. If they weren't interested in the war they would still have to pay. Most men who just wanted to get on with their lives were forced to fight. They weren't bothered about what side they fought for. Most of them fought for whichever army forced them to first. Some villagers in Worcestershire were told that if they didn't pay their taxes their houses would be pillaged and set on fire as well as being imprisoned. Men who wouldn't join the army had their wives and daughters abducted and their sons killed.

The first shot to occur during the Battle of Gettysburg was fired 3 miles northwest of Gettysburg at about 7:30am. One the second day Longstreet's troops attack and battle for about 3 hours. On the third day in the afternoon there was the Pickett Charge.

Gen Lee didn't pay attention to the rules of war put forth many, many years ago by a great Chinese general. One of these is not to fight someone who has the high ground. But he did that over and over again. He lost thousand of troops that way. Instead he should have gone around the ridge called Little Round Top and he might have taken Washington DC.

THERE WERE VERY FEW CSA MEDALS AWARDED TO ANYONE. MOST OF THOSE FEW HAVE BEEN POST-BELLUM AND/OR POSTHUMOUS AWARDS. ALTHOUGH GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE WAS, ARGUABLY,WORTHY OF AWARDS AND MEDALS FROM THE CSA, HE PROBABLY EARNED MEDALS DURING HIS IMPECCABLE CAREER IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY INSTEAD OF DURING HIS SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY. LEE WAS PRESENTED MANY OFFERS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, BUT THESE WERE FINANCIAL AND OPPORTUNISTIC IN NATURE SO LEE REFUSED THEM. LEE GRADUATED FROM WEST POINT AT THE TOP OF HIS CLASS AND WITHOUT ONE, SINGLE, SOLITARY DEMERIT. HIS SON, CUSTIS LEE, LATER GRADUATED FIRST IN HIS CLASS. LEE SERVED WELL IN THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR. LEE SERVED AS COMMANDANT AT WEST POINT. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, LEE HEADED WASHINGTON COLLEGE (NOW WASHINGTON & LEE). WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST HONORABLE FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

The Battle of Gettysburg changed the course of the Civil War by causing a Confederate defeat so serious that from then on the Union held the initiative in the war. The Confederate hope had been to invade the North with such success that the war would turn in the favor of the South. Instead, Union offensives followed on the heels of the Gettysburg; just as importantly, the Union regained its confidence and resolve.

1861

Fort Sumter Win

Harpers Ferry Win

Manassas Win

1862

Pea Ridge Loss

Fort Donaldson Loss

Monitor vs. Virginia Tie

Peninsula Campaign Win

Seven Days Win

Manassas Win

Seven Pines Win

Shiloh Tie

Antietam Tie

Fredericksburg Win

1863

Chancellorville Win

Vicksburg Loss

Gettysburg loss

Chickamauga Win

Chattanooga Loss

1864

Wildness Win

Mobile Bay Loss

Atlanta Loss

Petersburg Loss

Nashville Loss

1865

Five Forks Loss

Palmito Ranch Win

Chance.

A Confederate officer managed to lose a copy of Lee's orders.

They were found by Union soldiers and shown to McLellan, who saw that Lee had divided his army into widely-separated divisions.

McLellan might have been able to destroy these divisions, one by one. But there had been a Confederate spy in the camp, who alerted Lee, who then concentrated his troops at Antietam Creek, by Sharpsburg.

The Union still won the battle, but was not able to destroy the Confederate army, which escaped back to Virginia.

The north union won the civil war, but it was close bec ause thesouth side won more battles andlost more men but they were forced to surrender because they ran out of supplies.
The North won the Civil War

"Fore score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation; conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war, to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave there lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting an proper that we should do this. Yet, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate; we cannot consecrate; we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor powers to add or detract. The world will little not nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated to the struggle that those who perished her have thus far so nobly advanced; that this nation, under God, will experience a new burst of freedom; that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

There are many answers to this question but perhaps the most logical answer is that it ended the ability of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgina to sustain offensive actions. From Gettysburg until the end of the war, Lee's army operated primarily from a defensive rather that offensive posture. Lee's army could not exist in the field and sustain casualties of the magnitude inflicted upon it at Gettysburg. Soon after Gettysburg, and as a result of his failure to follow the Confederate retreat, the Federal commander George Gordon Meade was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant. To be sure, Grant made many mistakes, but his style was to fight not finesse. There are many answers to this question but perhaps the most logical answer is that it ended the ability of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgina to sustain offensive actions. From Gettysburg until the end of the war, Lee's army operated primarily from a defensive rather than an offensive posture. Lee's army could not exist in the field and sustain casualties of the magnitude inflicted upon it at Gettysburg. Soon after Gettysburg, and as a result of his failure to follow the Confederate retreat, the Federal commander George Gordon Meade was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant. To be sure, Grant made many mistakes, but his style was to fight not finesse.

• It was the site of one of the most famous battles in the US Civil War
• It was the site of one of the most quoted speeches in US history
• Both of the above sites (in whole or in part) are located within the bounds of what is now a national cemetery