“For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863.” So starts a powerful passage by ...

The three-day Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and one that tipped the scales in favor of the Union, ended 156 years ago on Wednesday. Eleven thousand died, 29,000 more were ...

For the first two years of the Civil War, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, had been the homefront, where residents feared for their husbands, brothers, and sons who were away fighting, and waited for word ...

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As Gettysburg hits 150, a detailed account of the nation’s greatest battle. Robert E. Lee’s smashing victory against Major General Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville in May 1863 ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers ...

(CBS News) Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was fought from July 1-3, 1863, and is considered one of the costliest military engagements in American history, in part ...

You'll find the Shriver House Museum in the heart of Gettysburg, a block south of the Gettysburg Museum of History on ...

"Forward men! For God's sake, forward!" - Union Major General John Reynolds before being killed on July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg On July 1, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces approached ...

For historians, and for much more casual students of the Civil War, the battle of Gettysburg 150 years ago holds seemingly limitless fascination — a search for "Gettysburg" on Amazon turns up over ...

Culp's Hill, part of the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, circa 1863. This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical ...