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The Battle of Gettysburg was a very important battle in the Civil War. It was a three
day costly and bloody battle that took place in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania. The battle was on July 1st-3rd 1863. On day three of
these battles they had many calvery battles and surpise attack battles.
In the end the Union won the Battle of Gettysburg
battle info Day
3 of the battle was on July 3 1863. It's often called the turning point
in the war. Conferedate commander Gernal Lee had a plan to march though
the union and spilt them in half. But then the Union attacked 1st,this
battle lasted for a very long time. The conferate were forced back to
Culps's Hill. About noon calvery forces meet close to Gettysburg.
But back at the main battle site cannon forces were being used.The
union was using cannon forces for a while but then they slowed their
use to fool the conferdates, it worked. The conferdates stared
marching to the union but as they were arriving they were
attacked, killing many of them. Then the surving all charged. After a
while of battle conferdates had been beaten. There
were many battles though the day but the south ended up winning the 3
day battle.
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Interasting facts
*Bloodest battle of Civil War.
*Most expensive battle of Civil War.
*Had many Calvary battles-battles fought on horse back.
*Calvery battles were used on the 1st and 3rd days of battle.
*On the second day the calvary forces were not present for reasons unknown.
* In the confedate army 28,000 out of 75,000 were wounded or missing.
*In the union 23,000 out of 88,000 were also wounded or missing.
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biblography
Gettysburg Day Three. 2011. www.civilwaracademy.com
Battle of Gettysburg.1996. www.historyplace.com
Links
http://www.visit-gettysburg.com/the-battle-of-gettysburg-timeline.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/graphics/experience/battles/gettysburg.html
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Kate Zuhars St. Gabriel 2011