Battle of Gettysburg
Introduction: Driving through Gettysburg people see statues and marking at different sites, if you're do not know much history you would still know that these markings are a symbols of fallen soldiers. These soldiers never really needed to die but the North and South could not work out their differences peacefully which caused a great war in U.S. history, The Civil War. One of the biggest battles fought during the Civil war took place in the small city of Gettysburg. The battle of Gettysburg was the biggest and bloodiest battles of the Civil War. Gettysburg is also known as the turning point in the war. 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. Day 1: July 1,1863 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 se
Longstreet's corps were moving down and around the Union's left. It's hard to say that if none of this ever happened what it would be like today but we will never. " By now, both sides were converging in Gettysburg. "Those Confederates who decide to run ran right into Union sharp shooters hiding behind a stone wall (Shaara, 187). All we can do now is to learn from the past and try not to let anything like this happen again. "From Big Round Top's summit, Colonel William C. The next afternoon, Lee began the long limping retreat to Virginia through a summer down pour that washed all the blood from the grass and pelted the wounded Confederates riding in the wagon train that stretch for seventeen miles. " Far our in front of the Union lines Sickles and his men were in desperate need of help. The statues and markings are up not just to mark important battles during Gettysburg but also to remind us of what happened there; so we can try not to let it happen again. We had too many families and friends fighting against each other for a cause, which was not really that big. Thirty-eight Confederate battle flags had been. "Pickett scribbled a final note to his fiancee and handed it to Longstreet to mail (Ward, 228). As many as ten man at a time were destroyed by a single bursting shell.
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