On this day in 1863, on the second day of the struggle, the Confederate and Union armies faced each other a mile apart in two sweeping parallel arcs.

The Battle Of Gettysburg Day 2: The Charge To Win 300 Seconds. ... The American lines are now almost set into the famous "fish-hook" formation that one can find on so many maps.

VideoAround 4:30 PM on July 2, 2013, my covivant and I were approaching what I thought might be the high point of our Gettysburg experience, well my experience anyway. At 5:00 PM, Ranger Jim Flook ...

On the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee listened to scouting reports, scanned the battlefield and ordered his second-in-command, James Longstreet, to attack the ...

Video We did not feel compelled to rise early on July 2. Although there were National Park Service events going all day, it was the events of the afternoon and evening 150 years ago that would ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – June 30, 1863, is the last day this was simply a little-known farm community. From then on, Gettysburg no longer was a town but a battle, the largest ever on American soil. And ...

Battle of Gettysburg: Day 1 01:40. Allen Guelzo, author of "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion," says the surprise attack would have worked if not for a flurry of desperate actions by low-level Union ...

In this five-part series, a best-selling author and head of the Civil War history department at Gettysburg College describes at key locations how the Union forces barely won the battle and almost lost ...