becoming the highest-ranking officer to die of a bayonet wound in the Civil War. This week marks the 154th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought on July 1–3, 1863.

One score and 12 years ago, a determined director and thousands of reenactors brought forth an epic film based on an historical novel chronicling the Battle of Gettysburg. Now the New Ulm Film Society ...

Humphreys at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ltr, AAH to Rebecca, 24 Jan 1863, AAHP, HSP, 33/28; William H. Powell, The Fifth Army Corps ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but surely ...

Work is being done to preserve an important part of Civil War history. Sign up for our Newsletters The Gettysburg Cyclorama, ...

Gettysburg National Military Park was established in 1895 to commemorate an 1863 battle that turned the tides of the Civil War. Situated in rural southern Pennsylvania, this landscape was once a hub ...

Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief but consequential speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of the bloodiest battlefield of the American Civil War, where thousands of soldiers had died. Lincoln ...

Envision the battlefield, ten miles from the Maryland border in Pennsylvania on July 1 to 3, 1863 ... Gettysburg, at least 45,000 Americans were killed or injured—more than in any other Civil ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places ... ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America. At Gettysburg in 1863, Lincoln said perhaps more than he knew. The war was about a ...

Considered the turning point of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was also the bloodiest, amassing an estimated 51,000 casualties. The three-day conflict took place in July 1863 at what is ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...

To better understand what life was like during the Civil War, visit the ... during the Battle of Gettysburg) died when struck by a Confederate bullet on July 3, 1863, the last day of the battle.