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✦ History

Gettysburg campaign

June 3 – July 24, 1863 · Maryland

Result Inconclusive

Lee's Confederate army invaded Pennsylvania. The Union army defeated it at Gettysburg, and Lee retreated to Virginia.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States

Confederate States of America

George Meade military commander

Joseph Hooker military commander

Robert E. Lee military commander

Strength and losses

Strength: 85,231–104,256
Casualties: 32,043
Wounded: 16,576

Units

Army of the Potomac 147th Regiment (United States) 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment 6th Ohio Cavalry Regiment

Army of Northern Virginia First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion (Confederate) 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment