Battle of Gettysburg

Conflict

American Civil War

Date

1-4 July 1863

Place

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Outcome

Union victory

Combatants
Union States	Confederate States

Commanders
George G. Meade John F. Reynolds † James S. Wadsworth Solomon Meredith Lysander Cutler John C. Robinson Gabriel Paul Henry Baxter Abner Doubleday Thomas Rowley Roy Stone George Stannard John Caldwell Winfield Scott Hancock Edward Cross † Patrick Kelly Samuel Zook † John Brooke John Gibbon William Harrow Alexander Webb Norman Hall Samuel S. Carroll Alexander Hayes Thomas Smyth George L. Willard † Daniel Sickles David G. Birney Charles Graham J.H. Ward P. Regis de Trobriand Andrew A. Humphreys Joseph Carr William R. Brewster George Burling George Sykes James Barnes William Tilton Jacob Sweitzer Strong Vincent † Romeyn B. Ayres Hannibal Day Sidney Burbank Stephen H. Weed † Samuel W. Crawford William McCandless Joseph Fisher John Sedgwick Alfred T.A. Torbert Horatio Wright Joseph Bartlett David Russell Albion Howe Lewis Grant Thomas Neill John Newton Alexander Shaler Henry Eustis Frank Wheaton Oliver O. Howard Francis Barlow Leopold von Gilsa Adelbert Ames Adolph von Steinwehr Charles Coster Orland Smith Carl Schurz Alexander Schimmelfennig Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski Henry W. Slocum Alpheus S. Williams Archibald McDougall Henry Lockwood Thomas Ruger John W. Geary Charles Candy George Cobham, Jr. George Greene Alfred Pleasonton John Buford William Gamble Thomas Devin Wesley Merritt David Gregg John B. McIntosh Pennock Huey J. Irvin Gregg Judson Kilpatrick Elon Farnsworth † George Armstrong Custer William W. Robinson Samuel H. Leonard Adrian R. Root Richard Coulter Peter Lyle Chapman Biddle Langhorne Wister Edmund L. Dana Francis V. Randall Henry Boyd McKeen Charles G. Freudenburg Richard P. Roberts † John Fraser Francis E. Heath Francis E. Pierce Eliakim Sherrill † James M. Bull Clinton D. MacDougall Andrew H. Tippin Henry J. Madill Hiram Berdan James C. Rice Kenner Garrard Emory Upton David J. Nevin Andrew L. Harris George von Amsberg Silas Colgrove Thomas L. Kane Nathaniel P. Richmond	Robert E. Lee James Longstreet Lafayette McLaws Joseph B. Kershaw Paul J. Semmes † William Barksdale † William T. Wofford George Pickett Richard B. Garnett † James L. Kemper Lewis A. Armistead † John Bell Hood Evander M. Law Jerome B. Robertson George Anderson Henry Benning Richard S. Ewell Jubal Early Harry T. Hays William Smith Isaac E. Avery † John Brown Gordon Edward Johnson George H. Steuart James Walker J.M. Williams John Jones Robert E. Rodes Junius Daniel Alfred Iverson George Doles Stephen Dodson Ramseur Edward A. O'Neal A.P. Hill Richard H. Anderson Cadmus Wilcox Ambrose R. Wright William Mahone David Lang Carnot Posey Henry Heth J. Johnston Pettigrew J.M. Brockenbrough James J. Archer Joseph Davis William Dorsey Pender † Abner Monroe Perrin James Lane Edward Thomas Alfred M. Scales J.E.B. Stuart Wade Hampton Fitzhugh Lee Beverly Robertson Albert G. Jenkins William Jones John R. Chambliss John D. Imboden James K. Marshall † Vincent A. Witcher George T. Gordon William L. J. Lowrance Clark M. Avery Birkett D. Fry Samuel G. Shepard Robert M. Mayo John T. Jones Nathaniel H. Harris William Gibson Robert H. Dungan Archibald C. Godwin William Luffman Philip A. Work James L. Sheffield William White Joseph R. Cabell William R. Aylett Joseph Mayo, Jr. Charles S. Peyton Goode Bryan Benjamin G. Humphreys Isaac R. Trimble

Strength
94,000 troops	72,000 troops

Casualties
23,055	23,231

The Battle of Gettysburg (1-4 July 1863) was a major battle of the American Civil War. Often considered to be the turning point of the war in the favor of the United States, the battle lasted four days and caused over 46,000 casualties. It occurred when the Confederate States Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania ten months after his first invasion of the north was repelled at the Battle of Antietam, and when some Confederate soldiers searched for shoes in the town of Gettysburg, they fought a skirmish with the Union. Soon, the Army of the Potomac under George G. Meade turned its full attention to the town, and the Confederate and Union armies fought for days. Bitter fights took place on Little Round Top, Devil's Den, the Wheat Field, Peach Orchard, and in Pickett's Charge, and the battle resulted in a Union victory after the final Confederate assault was beaten off. The battle, together with the end of the siege of Vicksburg on 4 July, dealt a major blow to Confederate morale, and Lee did not attempt to invade the north a third time (however, Jubal Early had a short campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in late 1864, also defeated).