Once we got home, I would deploy my troops on the floor of my bedroom and refight Pickett’s Charge, the failed Confederate assault on the Union lines that served as the bloody climax of the Battle of ...
Inside this intimate museum in central Gettysburg, you'll find more than 4,000 artifacts from various historical periods. Noteworthy items include a Confederate flag used at the First Battle of ...
Gettysburg National Military Park was established in 1895 ... and the impact the surge of Confederate and Union forces had on these now-storied places. This history has long been told through the lens ...
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought between July 1 ... Some 3,155 Union troops were killed, while 3,903 Confederates died. The Union victory there marked the turning point of the war, the same ...
Saturday marks the 154th anniversary of one of the turning points in American history - the start of the Battle of Gettysburg. Over three days, Union troops held off Confederate soldiers ...
the roughly 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park is a must for history buffs, especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that Confederate troops clashed with Union ...
Great Britain and France recognized the Confederacy as a nation and shortly ... The South had won the war at Gettysburg.
Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate who joined the Confederacy after Virginia's secession. At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men ...
The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties ... army 880,000 — Number of Southerners mobilized for the Confederacy 50 — Estimated percentage of Civil War deaths ...