The Battle of Gettysburg

I have seen one of many movies that been made over the battle of Gettysburg, it is the best and most realistic movie ever made over the battle.

With this report I want to learn more about the battle than I already know, because there is a lot more in this subject for example why the it was at Gettysburg the bloodiest battle were fought and why the Confederate army lost the battle and not the Union army.

I want to describe how the battle began and why it was at Gettysburg, plus analyse why it became the bloodiest battle under the American Civil War.

Finally I want to estimate why the Civil War lasted about two more years after the three days bloody battle ended and could the war have had another outcome if the Confederate won over the Union.

How did the battle began and why at Gettysburg

Robert E. Lee, became more and more courageous after every decisive victory, it really became serious when he won two big battles at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, then his mind started to consider turn

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The history tells about a very famous battle that was fought at Little Round Top. 000 units, protected by artillery to storm 1½ mil over open field, in perfect order. 000 soldiers, would go into the state known as West Virginia and therefrom further North at Maryland and Pennsylvania. Lee had to face it, his plan failed and he had no other option than order a retreat. When he had penetrated these areas he would go for one of the largest town as Philadelphia or preferably Washington D.

The Union arrived and sealed all the range of hills and the Confederate genereal’s was not save with that, they would rather have them on open land, but Lee insisted, that here was the enemy and here the battle should be fought

Second day (July 2nd 1863)

General E. Retnold’s division, who was killed that day by a sniper, he was the highest officer that died under the battle.

I could see the desperate

and hopeless attack and I could see how

this hopeless massacre would end.

His plan was to march on the West side of the Blue Ridge mountains with the purpose to hide his movements from the Union army.

Why did the war last two more years

. The Union did not chase the Confederate army after Lee’s retreat they felt that wining the battle was enough.

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