Three days at Gettysburg reshaped a nation, battlefield tactics, and the war's moral meaning.
Lee’s plan relied on a Confederate victory by turning a Union flank at night, which never happened in daylight.
During the siege, worms—yes, worms—hollowed out thousands of shell fragments, aiding the Confederates' improvised fortifications.
Gettysburg's dead outnumbered its living soldiers by roughly two to one for weeks after the battle.
The battlefield’s most famous monument was funded by a single, surprisingly modern-sounding fundraising effort: a copper nickel souvenir coin.
Three days at Gettysburg reshaped a nation, battlefield tactics, and the war's moral meaning.
Lee’s plan relied on a Confederate victory by turning a Union flank at night, which never happened in daylight.
During the siege, worms—yes, worms—hollowed out thousands of shell fragments, aiding the Confederates' improvised fortifications.
Gettysburg's dead outnumbered its living soldiers by roughly two to one for weeks after the battle.
The battlefield’s most famous monument was funded by a single, surprisingly modern-sounding fundraising effort: a copper nickel souvenir coin.
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