About Gettysburg

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because key routes from the South led to Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. In order to control these routes the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. The confrontation at Gettysburg became one of the most decisive as well as one of the bloodiest battles of American history. Almost a third of the Union army in the Battle of Gettysburg was from Pennsylvania.
Important Men
Mr. Meade (see picture One) was born in Cadiz, Spain, on the thirty-first of December 1815. He was a general for the Union in the U.S. Civil War and the winner at the Battle of Gettysburg. During the Civil War Mr. Meade commanded a band of soldiers from the Pennsylvania Reserves. Commander Meade was put in charge of the Army of the Potomac just a few days before the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Mr. Pickett was born on January 25, 1825, in Richmond, Virginia. He was a general for the Confederate in the Civil War. He is most commonly remembered for ...

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arms. Meade lost almost as many men. The battle had considerable psychological effect on both North and South, calling forth President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Occurring in the same week that Vicksburg fell to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg put the Confederates on the defensive in the east.
Mr. Hancock was born in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, on February 14, 1824. He was an American soldier for the Union during the Civil War. As a general in the Civil War, Mr. Hancock was excellent as a brigade and following that a corps commander, he was the one that made the critical decision for General Meade to fight at Gettysburg. He played a main part in the second and third ...

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