Gettysburg

﻿ ﻿﻿﻿﻿Gettysburg The Confederates had invaded the North to get Philadelphia. The place which the Union and the Confederates had clashed was at Gettysburg. General Lee was leading the Confederate army up North. General Grant had lead the Union army that defended against the Confederate attack. The battle of Gettysburg took place on July 1-4 19 1863. THe battle of Gettysburg was one of the major of the Civil War. The battle was a great victory for the Union, but it was a very bloody battle for the Union by the number of people lost. In Gettysburg and the surrounding area, Union and the Confederates had clashed. The Confederates had invaded the North and end up attacking Gettysburg.

The Union was guarding Gettysburg from the Confederates invasion on the Northern side. The Union was pushed into a corner many times. They seem to be overpowered by cConfederate's onslaught, but they pushed the Confederates back. The Colored Troops or the 1st Minnesota are the ones that helped stand against the Confederates constant attack.
 * Union: **

A soldier by the name of Alfred Carpenterhad kept a journal on what happened during the battle. From the view of Alfred, the battle he was in between the Union and Confederate was a chaotic one. The Union was pinned down by the Confederate attacks. The soldiers would ignore the injured and continue to defend and charge against the enemy. The soldiers would follow through the commands from their captains or general without stopping. In the end, the battle had caused many casualties for the Union army and they had lost ground to the Confederates.


 * ﻿ **


 * Confederates: **

General Lee's objective at Gettysburg was to drive back and defeat the Union forces stationed there. From that point, he would proceed to the major cities of the Union: Philadelphia, New York City, and the capital, Washington D.C. The Confederates needed this victory to boost morale and change the tide of the war. The Confederates stationed six of their corps for the battle, them being the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and the 11th corps. With this fighting force, the Confederates felt they had a legitimate chance to win the battle

One of the soldiers, Captain John T. James, under command of Major General George E. Pickett, recounts parts of the battle in a letter to his family. He recounts the barreling cannonade of the Union, and the deadly force they put forth. He also recalls the deadly charge of his commanding officer George Pickett, known as Pickett's Charge. James remembers how the hundreds of his fellow soldiers went forth and attempted to drive back the Union forces, while instead they were killed by the thousands thanks to the heavy reinforcements of the Union. Seeing this, he knew that the Confederate chances for victory were finished

Throughout the battle of Gettysburg, the Union was cornered by the Confederates. The Union was kept being pushed back by the Confederates charges. One of the famous charges was Picket's charge. Most of the battles between the Confederates and Union was a bloody one. After the battles between the Union and Confederates, the battlefield was litter with dead bodies of each side shown here. The Battle of Gettysburg had many casualties for both the Union and Confederates shown here a row of dead soldiers collected from the battlefields. The Confederates had attacking the Union from all different sides to break through their defense. The Union had held against the attacks from the Confederates with difficulties. The Confederate army had almost surrounded the Union line of defense show on this map. General Lee had used the Confederate army more efficiently than the General of the Union army. People had wrote about the accounts of the battle in Gettysburg shown herewhich talks about what happened during and after the battle. The writer describes the long battle between the two armies which later became a hand to hand combat. After the battle, the writer describes a mental image of how the battlefield was filled with wounded and dead which the armies carried back to the rear of the army.
 * Battle Description: **

Work Cited  //Gettysburg //. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. <[]>.

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Gettysburg General Armistead Picketts Charge //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. N.d. //Talisman Coins//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">< http://www.talismancoins.com/catalog/Gettysburg_General_Armistead_Picketts_Charge.jpg>.