Gettysburg, the Pivotal Battle of the Civil War

advance artillery attack Baltimore Pike batteries Battle of Gettysburg battle of July battle-line battlefield Bloody Angle brigade Buford Cemetery Hill Cemetery Ridge Chambersburg Chambersburg Pike column command Confederate crest crossing Culp's Hill defeat Devil's Den Early's eastward Eleventh Corps Emmetsburg Road field Fifth Corps fight fire flank front grove guns Hagerstown Hancock Avenue Heth's high tide hour Howard hundred yards infantry July second July third Lee's army Little Round Top Longstreet Meade miles monuments nary Ridge northward o'clock P.M. old veteran Peach Orchard Pettigrew's Pickett's Charge Pickett's division PORTRAIT OF BRIG.-GEN PORTRAIT OF MAJ.-GEN position Potomac rear regiments retreat Reynolds Rock Creek rode Salient Second Corps Seminary Ridge Sickles Sixth Corps Slocum slope southward Taneytown Taneytown Road Third Corps thousand tower troops Union army Union forces Union line valley victory westward Wheatfield Road whole army Willoughby Run woods wounded