Gettysburg Address. One of the only two confirmed photos of Abraham Lincoln[1][2][3] (sepia highlight) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before the speech.
To Lincoln's right is his bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon. Background Following the July 1–3, 1863, Battle of Gettysburg, reburial of Union soldiers from the Gettysburg Battlefield graves began on October 17. The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: "It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks. During the train trip from Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg on November 18, Lincoln remarked to John Hay that he felt weak.
Program and Everett's "Gettysburg Oration" Edward Everett delivered a two-hour oration before Lincoln's few minutes of dedicatory remarks. The program organized for that day by Wills and his committee included: Gettysburg Battle Simulation Game. Battle Map: The Third Day of Gettysburg One of the most important battles of the U.S.
Civil War --and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days July 1-3, 1863, the country held its collective breath. This titanic struggle between the Confederate Army of North Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac under General George Meade may have ultimately decided the war. If the South had won a major victory, some historians believe that it would have caused the Confederacy to gain international recognition and support from England and France, humiliated Abraham Lincoln, and resulted in a negotiated end to the war on the Confederacy's terms.
This simulation of the battle is a test to pit your decisions as Robert E. This is not a contest, only a bit of experimental "counterfactual" history to see what might have been, and a test of your own generalship. Enjoy the simulation – and tell your friends! Robert E. Lee bio. Born to Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee in Stratford Hall, Virginia, Robert Edward Lee seemed destined for military greatness.
Despite financial hardship that caused his father to depart to the West Indies, young Robert secured an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated second in the class of 1829. Two years later, he married Mary Anna Randolph Custis, a descendant of George Washington's adopted son, John Parke Custis. Yet with for all his military pedigree, Lee had yet to set foot on a battlefield.
Instead, he served seventeen years as an officer in the Corps of Engineers, supervising and inspecting the construction of the nation's coastal defenses. George G. Meade bio. Pictures of the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg Mini-documentary. Battle of Gettysburg. The Battle of Gettysburg (local After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North—the Gettysburg Campaign.
With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade. Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it.
Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia. Background and movement to battle Confederate Union. Gettysburg Map. « Back to Maps | More on Gettysburg » Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863 Prepared by T.
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