Battle of Gettysburg

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the site of the Union victory in the decisive battle of the American Civil War, July 1-3, 1863.  Gettysburg was the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s second invasion of the North with his Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.  Lee attacked Union positions at Culp’s Hill, Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge, and Little Round Top, among others, at Gettysburg and failed to break the defensive “fishhook” line along the high ground held by Union General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac.  Pickett’s Charge on July 3 at Gettysburg is sometimes referred to as the “high water mark” of the Confederacy.