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marked a turning point in the Civil War. This is the most famous and

important Civil War Battle that occurred, around the small market town

of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Most importantly Gettysburg was the

clash between the two major American Cultures of there time: the

North and the South. The causes of the Civil War and the Battle of

Gettysburg, one must understand the differences between these two

cultures. The Confederacy (the South) had an agricultural economy

producing tobacco, sugar, and cotton, were found to thrive in the

South. With many large plantations owned by a few very wealthy rich

white males. These owners lived off the labor of sharecroppers and

slaves, charging high dues for the use of their land. “The Southern or

Confederate Army was made up of a group of white males fighting for

their independence from federal northern.” (McPheron, 33)

The cooler climate and rocky soil in the North were not suitable for

establishing plantations or large farms. The Northern States,

dedicated to a more modern way of life and to end slavery. The Union

(the North) economy was based on manufacturing, and even the

. . .

On the following day, July 2, 1863, a series of uncoordinated and

fragmented Confederate attacks on the Union defensive position south

of the town. He

held no council of war, nor time, even informally. While simultaneous attacks were supposed to have

occurred on Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Ridge, the attacks took place

six hours apart and were unsuccessful. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern

Virginia which had crossed the Potomac River and marched into

Pennsylvania. Instead he himself

rode out to consult with each corps commanders and his chief

subordinates, and he saw other officers individually or in groups at his

headquarters. Lee, believing his Army was invincible and

undefeatable, decided to attack what he thought to be the weakest

position of the Union line the next day. “All during the morning of Thursday, July 2, as both

Lee and Meade planned their operations and deployed their troops,

advance detachments of both armies kept up a lively fire. The

Southerners enjoyed a prosperous agricultural based on slave labor and

wished to keep their old way of life.

On Tuesday morning, June 30, 1863, an infantry brigade of

Confederate soldiers searching for shoes headed toward Gettysburg.

The South was fighting against the government that they thought was

treating them unfairly. “General

George Meade, formed his forces in a widely recognizable horse shoe

formation, anchored at Big and Little Round Top on the West Culp’s

Hill on the East, and got positioned in behind a stonewall along

Cemetery Ridge. Thus,

after the first day of battle the five mile Confederate line traveled from

Seminary Ridge on the west side of the town of Gettysburg, through

the town and eastward toward the area called Culp’s Hill. ”

(Coddington, 385)

General George Meade, Commander of the Union Army of the

Potomac arrived, along with the majority of the army.

“The Confederate commander spotted a long column of Federal

cavalry heading toward the town. Hill, he would go back the following morning for shoes

that were desperately needed.

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