THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

WHO WAS INVOLVED?

• General Robert E. Lee (Confederate General)
• General George Meade (Union General)
• General George Pickett (Confederate General)
• General James Longstreet (Confederate General)
• General Sickles (Union General)
• Union armies
• Confederate armies
• Many other generals were at the battle above are just some listed.

When did the Battle occur?
July 1st - 3rd, 1863

WHERE DID THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG TAKE PLACE?
It took place in the North, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

WHY IS THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG SIGNIFICANT?

• Greatest Union victory of the war
• Considered to be the turning point of the war
• General Lee had finally been beaten
• The Battle had 51,000 casualties

Mary Virginia Wade
(Jennie Wade)
Mary Virginia Wade was the only direct civilian casualty in the battle of Gettysburg. She was killed while baking bread for hungry Union soldiers who begged her to make them food. While she was baking the bread she was hit by a stray bullet and killed. Other than Mary Wade no other civilians were killed.

WORK CITED

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