Battle of Gettysburg
July 1โ3, 1863
Result Union victory
1 to 3 July 1863: George Meade's Union Army of the Potomac defeated Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, halting Lee's second invasion of the North. Widely seen as the Civil War's turning point, it was the bloodiest battle in American history to that time, with over 50,000 combined casualties.
Battles 1
July 3, 1863
Key commanders
Confederacy 7
Robert E. Lee
John Bell Hood
James Longstreet
Lieutenant General, Commander of the First Corps
Richard S. Ewell
Lieutenant General, Commander of the Second Corps
A. P. Hill
Lieutenant General, Commander of the Third Corps
J. E. B. Stuart
Major General, Commander of the Cavalry Corps
George Pickett
Major General, Commander of Pickett's Division; led Pickett's Charge
Union 7
George Meade
Winfield Scott Hancock
Major General, Commander of the II Corps
Daniel Sickles
Major General, Commander of the III Corps; lost a leg on July 2
Henry W. Slocum
Major General, Commander of the XII Corps
Oliver O. Howard
Major General, Commander of the XI Corps
George Sykes
Major General, Commander of the V Corps
John Gibbon
military commander