Battle of Gettysburg

Taking away the statues and most of the new development in the city we can see what Gettysburg looked liked to the soldiers that fought there. Stepping back through time, Gettysburg was a calm city never expecting a great battle to be fought there.

Gettysburg was not even supposed to happen; it happened by mistake. An infantry of officer under General Richard Ewell’s command led a few soldiers into Gettysburg to retrieve shoes for the war beaten Confederate soldiers. The Confederate advance guard ran headlong into General John Bulford’s Union Cavalry. “While both sides sent couriers pounding off for rei

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It’s a sacred place that had a lot of respect and culture to it. They had only ten minutes to spare until the Confederates were upon them. “Hancock was in command at the Angle, and he and Armistead had known each other well before the war; now it was Armistead dying wish that his old friend sends his personal effects home to his family (Shaara, 320). To all of Chamberlain’s men surprise, he decided to charge right into the Confederate line. Walking the battlefield you can get a great feel of what they must have gone through. Almost a third of those engaged- 51,000 men-were lost. Thirty eight Confederate battle flags had been. “The rebels pushed them back through the town until General Winfield Scott Hancock rallied the retreating troops into defensives positions on Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill (Ward, 216). Lee, head of the Conferdate army, was unsure of where excatly the Union was. “General Sickles, wounded by a Confederate shell, had to be taken off the battle and have his leg amputated (Ward, 224). ” He had not yet heard anything from General Stuart. Union guns on Cemetery Ridge and Little Round Top opened fire on the right of the advancing Confederate line. When told to rally his divisions for a possible counterattack, Pickett answered, ”Lee, I have no division now. Finally, he ordered them to fire: eleven cannon and seventeen hundred muskets went off at once (Ward, 232). ” “When it seemed possible that the Union lines would break, officers rallied their men (Ward, 232).

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