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Gettysburg National Military Park GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK PENNSYLVANIA Lee did not know until June 28 that the the powerful Confederate forces smashed Delay dogged Confederate preparations, cided upon a massive frontal assault against Union army—now commanded by Gen. into the Union lines. and the morning wore away; with it went Meade's center. A breakthrough there GETTYSBURG George G. Meade—was following him. Back through the town fled the men in Lee's hopes for an early attack. would cut the Federal army in half and Then, realizing that a battle was imminent, blue. Many units fought heroic rearguard Just after noon, Union Gen. Daniel Sickles might open the way to that decisive victory Lee ordered his scattered forces to concentrate actions to protect their retreating comrades. pushed his troops westward from Cemetery the Confederacy needed. NATIONAL MILITARY PARK at Cashtown, 8 miles west of Gettysburg. By 5:30 p.m., the Union remnants were hur­ Ridge. His new line formed a salient with His fighting blood up, Lee waved aside Two days later, on June 30, Gen. John riedly entrenching south of Gettysburg on its apex at the Peach Orchard on the Emmits- Longstreet's objections to a frontal assault Scene of the climactic Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point of the American Buford's Union cavalry contacted a Confed­ Cemetery Hill, where Gen. Winfield Scott burg Road. This powerful intrusion further against the strong Union line. Pointing to complicated Lee's attack plan. Civil War, and the place where President Abraham Lincoln made his cele­ erate detachment near Gettysburg, then oc­ Hancock—a rock in adversity—rallied their Cemetery Ridge, he exclaimed: "The enemy Finally, at 4 p.m., Longstreet's batteries is there, and I am going to strike him." brated Gettysburg Address. cupied McPherson Ridge, just west of the shattered ranks. town. Thus, groping through the fog of war, At the sound of the cannonade, General broke the silence. Gen. John B. Hood's Now Lee massed his forces along and in the fingertips of the vast armies had chanced Lee had hastened to the front. He watched division struck the Union flank at the Round front of Seminary Ridge. J. E. B. Stuart— Great Southern victories had since been Of the more than 2,000 land engagements to touch at Gettysburg. Now began the race the Federals stream toward the hills south of Tops, Devil's Den, and the Wheatfield; close finally back with the army—began moving Gettysburg Address Memorial, Gettysburg National Cemetery. won at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville of the Civil War, Gettysburg ranks supreme. to concentrate winning power. town and begin their entrenchments. on his left, Lafayette McLaws' men charged his cavalry to a point where he might harass Though Gettysburg did not end the war, nor in Virginia. In the west, however, Union Though aware that their position was a strong the Union salient at the Peach Orchard. the rear of the Federal army. (This design Marching in dressed ranks across the open Late on the afternoon of July 4, Lee began attain any major war aim for North or armies were probing deep into the Confed­ THE BATTLE BEGINS one, he believed it could be crushed by at­ Farther north, R. H. Anderson's division was thwarted when alert Union cavalry inter­ fields, battered by Union artillery most of an orderly retreat southwest over the Hagers- town Road and through the mountain pass. South, it remains the great battle of the war. eracy. The Southern stronghold at Vicks- tacking Culp's Hill or Cemetery Ridge, the struck the Emmitsburg Road. cepted Stuart.) the way, the attackers now converged upon Followed cautiously by Meade, Lee crossed Here at Gettysburg on July 1, 2, and 3, burg—key to control of the Mississippi Early on July 1, Buford's pickets opened southerly extension of Cemetery Hill. By sundown, the Confederates had com­ Meanwhile, the Federal troops of General Meade's center. Momentarily the long lines 1863, more men died than in any other battle River—was besieged. fire on the Confederate vanguard approach­ pletely shattered the Union salient. Hancock's Corps eyed the Confederate line were slowed by the rail fence at the Emmits­ the Potomac safely into Virginia on the night fought before or since on North American If Lee's veterans now launched another ing from Cashtown. Soon the Union cavalry THE SECOND DAY But to the north, Ewell's attack on Ceme­ from behind the stone wall that marked their burg Road, then they rushed up the slope of of July 13. soil. Here the Confederacy saw its greatest offensive across the Potomac, they might re­ was reinforced by Gen. John F. Reynolds' tery and Culp's Hills had bogged down. position on Cemetery Ridge. Near an angle Cemetery Ridge toward the line of fire erupt­ The Army of Northern Virginia had es­ offensive turned back, saw its splendid army lieve the pressure on Vicksburg; they might infantry. Meanwhile, jamming the roads By dawn, July 2, Lee's army was poised be­ Though individual units had been desperately in the wall, an umbrella-shaped copse of trees ing from the stone wall. caped, but it had been so cruelly mauled that retreat to Virginia with no gain to match its even win a decisive victory that would bring which converged like spokes on the hub of fore the hook-shaped Union line; he hoped to brave, the attack failed for lack of coordina­ provided shade for some of the men. These From front and flank, double canister and never again would it invade the North. peace and independence to the South. Out Gettysburg, dusty columns of both armies break it before Meade's entire force reached valor and terrible sacrifices. Here for the tion. Spangler's Spring and the Union de­ lucky ones might have preferred hot sun rifle volleys assailed the charging lines. AFTERMATH first time in the war, the men in the Union of such hopes was born the Gettysburg Cam­ pounded toward the sound of the guns. the field. His plan of attack called for Gen. fense works just north of it were captured elsewhere had they known that the antici­ They crumbled, re-formed, and again pressed In the battle, 75,000 Confederates had Army of the Potomac rose up from their paign. Until 1 p.m., the Union troops on McPher­ James Longstreet to assault the Union left after dark, but the main Union line stood pated Confederate attack was to be aimed forward. been pitted against 97,000 Union troops. lines after the battle and cheered, aware that The Army of Northern Virginia began its son Ridge held the attacking Confederates on Cemetery Ridge. To aid the main attack, unbroken. directly at these trees. Only 150 men led by Gen. Lewis Armi- Gen. Richard Ewell's men would advance on Lee lost 28,000 killed, wounded, and cap­ they had repulsed the hardest hammering march on June 3. From Fredericksburg, at bay. But suddenly the hills and ridges Except for the isolated struggle to the At noon, stillness descended over the bat­ stead crossed the stone wall, there to be over­ Cemetery and Culp's Hills, at the right of tured as against a Union loss of 23,000. that Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Vir­ where they had shielded Richmond from the north of town came alive with charging men. north, darkness ended the fighting and tlefield. Men waited in their positions, and come after savage hand-to-hand fighting. the Union line. For the townspeople, the aftermath of bat­ ginia could give them. Here—4 months Army of the Potomac, the long columns In a concerted attack from west and north blotted from view the corpses that signified the heat grew more intense. Meanwhile, Federal regiments to the right tle was more trying than the battle itself. later—President Lincoln summed up the headed west through the gaps of the Blue the day's work. But wounded men continued Suddenly, at 1 o'clock, 140 Confederate and to the left of The Angle wheeled in Wounded men were crowded into almost meaning of the war, using 269 words that Ridge, then northeast to Pennsylvania in the Action on July 2. Longstreet's Confederates charge across the Wheatfield. Reproduced from an their pitiful calls for aid through the night. guns in line from the Peach Orchard to the front of the stone wall and delivered a raking every building. Dead men littered the coun­ surpass the millions uttered and written since. sheltered slot of the Shenandoah and Cum­ original glass-plate negative at Gettysburg National Military Park. Original painting by James Though partially successful, Lee had lost seminary let loose an earth-shaking cannon­ fire into the blunted wedge of Confederate tryside. berland Valleys. E. Taylor, 1885. the race to win a decisive victory while ade. Its objective: To prepare the way for attackers. Then came a Union counter­ Soon after the battle, Gov. Andrew Curtin When Union Gen. Joseph Hooker saw the still holding the advantage of numbers. the infantry assault against the Union line on charge that swept the staggering Confeder­ of Pennsylvania commissioned Attorney THE NORTH INVADED thin ranks Lee had left behind to screen Throughout July 2, fresh infantry had filed Cemetery Ridge. Federal artillery re­ ates off Cemetery Ridge—those that could David Wills of Gettysburg to purchase Richmond, he wanted to strike for the Con­ into Meade's line and new batteries had sponded with counterbattery fire, and for a walk. Thousands of dead and wounded re­ a burial ground for the Union dead.
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