However, the highlight of the trip was our final stop, two days in Gettysburg, the site of one of the most consequential ...

From the Cyclorama at Gettysburg, an image from the battle. (AP)Everyone knows Robert E. Lee … (AP)Union troops rush into battle, avenging earlier defeats in the Civil War, in a scene from th… ...

The circular order of July 1st was a preparatory order only, and was carefully worded accordingly. No one reading it with attention can regard it as anything else.

Battle of Gettysburg: Day 3 01:49. Key locations: Cemetery Hill, Culp's Hill, Cemetery Ridge. Key figures: George Pickett, Isaac Trimble, James Pettigrew, James Longstreet ...

Gettysburg remains the greatest battle ever to occur on the North American continent. Meade suffered some 23,000 casualties over the course of the battle, while Lee lost between 20,000 and 25,000 ...

Historian Wayne E. Motts discussed patients treated during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. From the barn where the 11th Corps Union Army Hospital was based, on George and Elizabeth Spangler's ...

It was the biggest battle of the war, unequaled in scale and violence by anything seen before or since on this continent. Two immense armies collided in the fields and orchards and woods around ...

This week marks the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. As it happened, Union victory in Pennsylvania on July 3, and the surrender of Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4 ...

Historian Edward Ayers talked about the Battle of Gettysburg and its consequences. He described how people in the surrounding areas might have experienced the battle and the logistics of the long ...

Although Gettysburg did represent a turning point in favor of the Union it by no means spelled an end to the slaughter. In the remaining 96 weeks of war there were a combined, North and South ...