The Battle of Gettysburg: The Turning Point of the American Civil War
By 50minutes
()
About this ebook
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Gettysburg. In July 1863, one of the most important military engagements of the American Civil War took place. The battle, which began with the Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s attempt to invade the North, resulted in a Union victory, and is often described as a turning point in the Civil War. Both sides sustained major losses, making the Battle of Gettysburg the deadliest battle of the entire war.
In just 50 minutes you will:
• Understand the political and social context surrounding the battle and the catalyst that triggered the start of the fighting
• Identify the main commanders and leaders who influenced the outcome of the battle
• Analyse the outcome of the battle and its impact on the future of America
ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture
50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
Read more from 50minutes
Albert Camus: Existentialism, the Absurd and rebellion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Transactional Analysis: A valuable tool for understanding yourself and others Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The United Nations: The Organisation at the Heart of International Diplomacy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Six-Day War: The Conflict that Re-Shaped the Middle East Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Tours: The Turning Point in the Struggle Against Islam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Thermopylae: The Heroic Fall of Leonidas I and the 300 Spartans Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Eruption of Vesuvius: The Deadly Disaster of Pompeii Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Yom Kippur War: The Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1973 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOpus Dei: The Secrets and Scandals of an Influential Organisation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYoga for Beginners: Simple techniques to boost your wellbeing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNeil Armstrong: The Success of Apollo 11 and the First Man on the Moon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMindfulness: The secrets to inner peace and harmony Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinston Churchill: Britain’s Legendary Wartime Leader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorges Lemaître: The Big Bang Theory and the Origins of Our Universe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Magellan: The First Circumnavigation of the Globe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCopernicus: The Discovery of the Heliocentric Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Chernobyl Disaster: The Nuclear Catastrophe and its Devastating Effects Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeif Eriksson: His Forgotten Discovery of America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Lepanto: The Brutal Defeat of the Ottoman Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlbert Einstein: The Genius who Changed the Face of Physics Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Trojan War: A legendary conflict in Ancient Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry Ford: Mass Production and the Model T Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Britain: Britain’s Strong Victory Against Nazi Germany Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVasco da Gama: The Sea Route to India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsaac Newton: A Giant of Modern Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Attack that Shook America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Battle of Gettysburg
Related ebooks
Great Civil War Projects: You Can Build Yourself Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeroes of the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Civil War Begins, Opening Clashes, 1861 [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYankees and Rebels: Stories of U.S. Civil War Leaders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBoy Generals of the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe U.S. Civil War: A Chronology of a Divided Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The American Civil War (4): The war in the West 1863–1865 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe American Civil War (1): The war in the East 1861–May 1863 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Longstreet by Elizabeth Varon: The Confederate General Who Defied the South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCivil War: Fort Sumter to Appomattox Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The American Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln and Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of the Civil War: The Causes, Battles, and Generals of the War Between the States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Commitment to Valor: A Unique Portrait of Robert E. Lee in His Own Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 10 Bloody Battles - American Revolution History Book Grade 5 | Children's American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarlem Hellfighters: African-American Heroes of World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeneral Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Who Freed the Slaves? History 4th Grade | Children's American Civil War Era History Books Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRecollections and Letters (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattles of the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camp Butler And The Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Can & We Did: History Of The American Black Soldier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Primary Source History of the US Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatriots and Redcoats: Stories of American Revolutionary War Leaders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Bill & Martin Dugard's O'Reilly Killing England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Overland Campaign, 4 May-15 June 1864 [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPennsylvania Civil War Trails: The Guide to Battle Sites, Monuments, Museums and Towns Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Wars & Military For You
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBand of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Battle of Gettysburg
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Battle of Gettysburg - 50minutes
Key information
When: 1-3 July 1863
Where: South of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, USA)
Context: The American Civil War (1861-1865)
Belligerents: The Union (north of the present-day United States) against the Confederate States of the south of the present-day United States
Commanders and leaders:
Robert Edward Lee, commanding general of the Confederate troops (1807-1870)
George Edward Pickett, Confederate general (1825-1875)
George Gordon Meade, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac of the Union (1815-1872)
Outcome: Union victory
Victims:
Unionist camp: approximately 3 000 dead, 15 000 wounded and 5 000 captured
Confederate camp: approximately 5 000 dead, 13 000 wounded and 6 000 captured
Introduction
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought between the troops of the Union and the Confederate troops during the American Civil War. Won by the northern troops, the ground combat is often considered one of the turning points of the war and one of the bloodiest of the conflict. On both sides, losses were particularly high.
The American nation, which was still relatively new, was in a deep crisis in the 1860s that saw many states pitted against one another over the topic of slavery: the states located in the north wanted to abolish slavery, while those in the south opposed this fiercely, fearing for their economy which was based on an agrarian society, where the exploitation of slaves was paramount. This quarrel gave rise to two clans: the Union, which included the northern states, and the Confederacy, which consisted of 11 states that