This are all battles of the Civil War, which led to the death of a large number soldiers. The Antietam was the bloodiest single day battle of the war, intersecting the Confederate forces at Vicksburg, the Union army began moving east, intending to invade Georgia across the mountains and transfer war to the Atlantic, while Gettysburg was the most significant and decisive battle of the war.
Explanation:
- On July 1, 1863, a battle began in the fields surrounding the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to decide the American Civil War.
- The Confederate force commander, General Robert E. Lee, transferred his forces from northern Virginia to Pennsylvania, practically invading the Union Territory.
- The battle began when the Confederate infantry attacked the Union cavalry north of Gettysburg. In the fighting that lasted for three days, about 43,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing.
- The Union Army suffered heavy casualties but also retained much of its territory. Many historians believe that General Lee courageously led the not-so-well-organized attacks on the firmly defended lines of the Unionist army. Although the Civil War lasted for almost two more years, the Confederate army never fully recovered from the defeat at Gettysburg.
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