The 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 rein
Volume 4, Issue, July 1899. pgs. 665-667. (JSTOR). forcements, Bulford tried desperately to hold his ground (Ward, 216)." "General Robert E. Lee, head of the Conferdate army, was unsure of where excatly the Union was. "He had heard through the grape vine that there was some Union cavalry heading into Gettysburg but he was not sure (Shaara, 74)." He had not yet heard anything from General Stuart. Lee had heard that the Union might be going into Gettysburg from what Longstreet's spy have said. A massive artillery barrage began at one o' clock, intended to soften the Union defenses. The earth shook from all the blast and shelling coming from the Confederate cannons and guns. General Meade had just left his commanders finishing their lunches when the barrage began; as an orderly served them butter, a shell tore him in two. "To keep up the men's courage General Hancock rode up and down the lines without flinching at the screaming shells (Ward, 226)." One Vermont regiment performed a dazzling drill field maneuver, company after company firing as they wheeled in line to enfilade the Conferdeates, first one side, then the other. The fighting was furious as any seen during the war. All Confederates who breech the wall were killed or captured. The gap in the union line closed. Thirty eight Confederate battle flags had been. Union officers tied them behind their horses and dragged them into the dust to taunt the fleeing southerners. Lee rode out among his men, now staggering back to Seminary Ridge, uring them to re-group. "There was nothing more he could say or they could do that day (Ward, 235)."
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