Battle of Gettysburg
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. 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 sent couriers pounding off for rei
At last the order came for the soldiers to advanced. The order came a little after three. Three divisions- 13,000 men-started out of the woods toward the stone wall at a brisk, steady pace, overing about one hundred yards a minute. They ere silent as they marched, forbidden this time to fire or give the rebel yell until they were on top of the enemy. Union guns on Cemetery Ridge and Little Round Top opened fire on the right of the advancing Confederate line. As many as ten man at a time were destroyed by a single bursting shell. The Confederates still kept moving towards the Ridge. Behind the stone wall Union officers continued to hold their fire. "Union General Alexander Hays told them they were about to see some fun. Finally, he ordered them to fire: eleven cannon and seventeen hundred muskets went off at once (Ward, 232)." The man Lee chose to organize the assault was a fellow Virginian and special favorite of Longstreet, General George E. Pickett. At thirty-eight, Pickett was about to marry a teen-age sweetheart. Pickett's men filed into the woods and waited, leaning on their rifles. "They knew what was about to be required of them, and to relieve the tension some of the men pelted each other with green apples (Ward, 227)." Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels. Ballantine Books. New York. 1974. By now, both sides were converging in Gettysburg. The Confederates were coming from the north and the Union was coming from the south. The Confederates were the closet and assemble faster. Union forces were slowly in gathering. "The rebels pushed them back through the town until General Winfield Scott Hancock rallied the retreating troops into defensives positions on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill (Ward, 216)."
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