| Show I HIGH TIDE OF WAR 1 BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG WAS TURNING POINT OF GREAT CIVIL CONFLICT BOTH SIDES FOUGHT BRAVELY Three Days of Fighting That Resulted In Total Losses of Over and Put Confederate Forces on the Defensive Bravely f fought by two great armies of Ameri Americans ans bravely won by the F Federals Fed d- d and bravely lost by the Confederates Confederates the battle of Gettysburg proved to be the turning point of the Civil war Before that the victories of the south were frequent an arid and its armies were aggressive After the bloody battle of July 1 2 and 3 1863 the forces of the Confederacy were generally generally generally gen gen- on the defensive Lees Lee's invasion invasion invasion inva inva- sion of the north undertaken In the hope hop that it would bring foreign aid to the southern cause was brought to toa a sudden and disastrous end General Lees Lee's army at Gettysburg numbered approximately approximate Y 84 while the Federal forces under command of Gen George G. G Meade aggregated about officers and men Lees Lee's corps corps' commanders were Generals Longstreet Ewell and A. A HIll PHill Commanders Commanders Commanders Com Com- manders of the Union corps were Generals Generals Generals Gen Gen- John F F. F Reynolds W W. S. S Hancock Hancock Hancock Han Han- cock D. D E. E E Sickles Sykes Sedgwick O. O O. O O Howard and Slocum Reynolds sent ahead to feel out the enemy arrived at Gettysburg the evening evening eve eve- ning of June 31 and In the tho fighting which began early the next day was killed Gen Abner Doubleday who succeeded him was forced back to Seminary Ridge after atter hard bard fighting and then had to to abandon that posItion position of the battie battle battle bat bat- tion EO so 50 that the first day Confederate vie vic tle tie was in m reality a tory That night Me Meade de ordered the and to Gettysburg entire Union army by next morning the two armies were confronting each other alon along a tenmile ten ten- mile mUe line of battle battle- Lee ordered Longstreet to turn the left eft flank of the Federal army by taking taking taking tak tak- ing Little Round Top but Sickles defended defended de de- fended that position so stubbornly that Longstreet's movement was checked Peach Orchard Cemetery Hill and The Devils Devil's Den pen Hill Hili Gulps Gulp's Cu IS the scenes of desperate fighting were was saved to and Little Round Top the Federals by the arrival of ot a bri brigado brigado brig brig- Weed His men under General ado to the dragged the gu guns ns s of a battery summit by hand opened with a wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- The third day of the greatest artillery duel Pick Pick- and then came the e entire w war r history history his his- Into has gone ctt's charge chargo which most heroic assaults assaults assaults as as- of the one tory as The men of ot otI of all time Picketts Pickett's division formed In brigade WW WWW columns move across open fields which were swept by such a storm of shrapnel and riffle fire as had never before been seen and though they fell like grain before the reapers reapers reap reap- ers era some of off them reaching the Union lines Unes only to be spee speedily lly overcome That ended the mighty battle and there was nothing left for Lee to todo todo todo do but get back Into Virginia Gettysburg cost the Union army the lives of a number of generals and the loss of nearly men On the Confederate side five generals were killed and nearly men killed or wounded N f 3 fImI vr I gk t t cY k ir f f w a v- v GP v t r ro rIl op o r s r. r ii J c N s I This picture shows shove a view from Little Round Top looking over oyer the wheat field where the second days day's battle fiercely surged |
