On July 1st, 1863, the connfederates led by general Robert E. Lee attacked General George G. Meade's army at the Patomac on the west and the north side backing up the union army.
Pickett's Charge- July 2nd, 1863 after Confederate attacks on Union flanks had failed Meade predicted that General Lee would try to attack his lines in the center the following morning. He was right the nex day General Lee tried. Althought the Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall they could not maintain their hold and lost over half of the 12,500 men before General Lee retreated back south which essentially ended the war.
It was a three day battle that resulted in a hunking 51,000 deaths the most in the entire Civil War. It was the most casualties in the entire Civil War. Estimated 20,000 men lost from the Union and 28,000 from the Confederacy.
On July 3rd, . During the war every home and church in Gettysburg turned into a hospital and every yard and field was filled with graves. This is where later President Abraham Lincoln made the most well known speech of the civil war the Gettysburg Address.
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