What are the causes and effects of the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 1

wat caused the battle of Gettysburg was Ulysses S. Grant set up post near the confederate forts and gettysaburg

wat caused the battle of Gettysburg was Ulysses S. Grant set up post near the confederate forts and gettysaburg

wat caused the battle of Gettysburg was Ulysses S. Grant set up post near the confederate forts and gettysaburg

Answer 2

Lee thought that if he looked like making a successful invasion of Pennsylvania, Lincoln would be worried enough to order Grant to send some of his troops East, and this would slow down his campaign to liberate the Mississippi.

Answer 3

During the American Civil War, the famous Battle of Gettysburg, occurring in July of 1863, was caused by a large-scale and a small-scale factor. The large-scale factor was the Southern decision to invade Northern territory in 1863. The small-scale factor was the decision by leading units of the South's invasion-army to enter Gettysburg on the morning of July 1st in search of supplies. Encountering Union forces (leading units of the Northern army to the east and south), the Confederates engaged them -- and the Battle of Gettysburg thus began.

Answer 4

The Gettysburg Address was during the civil war. The battle of Gettysburg is why Lincoln made that speech. He made the speech four months after the battle, on the battlefield.

- THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, AND ALL THE DEATHS WAS THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE GETTYSBURG ADRESS (AND THATS THE ONLY I KNOW OF)

Answer 5

Meade tried to stop Lee's invasion of the North.

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By invading the Pennsylvania Lee's main task was that to set up a huge strategic trap in order to destroy or to badly defeat the Army of the Potomac, giving battle at a place accurately chosen.

By what means? By means of a "strategic intimidation" in which he was a great master.

As statement of fact, on June 28, 1863, the Confederates reached the Susquehanna on a front of 40 Km. After a march of some 100 km they could now menacing both Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Their State's authority and the whole Union were panicked.

Lee's divisions were now lined up along an ample arc, whose concaveness directed southward.

The Army of Potomac coming up from the south, its Corps scattered in a long line, was marching towards the center of the arc.

Lee, was aware about the situation in which the Army of Potomac was going to get into and, on June 27, 1863, during a meeting of his staff pointed a finger on the map, indicating a little town, that of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was roughly at a point toward which all the roads leading southward were joining.

General Trimble reported he was told by Lee that most probably a great battle was going to be fought there and had the Almighty given the victory to his army, the Confederacy would have eventually gained the independence.

On June 30, 1863 all Confederate divisions were concentrated on an arc of 50 kilometers immediately north of Gettysburg, with exception of the Stuart's three brigades of cavalry, which had been not able of moving up the well warded right flank of the immense column of Union Army, which was heading northward for a length of many kilometers, and joining in time their Army.

The trap was near to spring.

Had Lee decisively won the battle, the Confederacy would have probably recognized as an independent country by France and Great Britain, obtaining their military and economic support.

Answer 6

From Wiki

The Battle of Gettysburg, was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg,Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point.Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade'sArmy of the Potomac defeated attacks byConfederate Gen. Robert E. Lee'sArmy of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North.

After his success at Chancellorsville inVirginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through theShenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North-the Gettysburg Campaign. With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or evenPhiladelphia. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.

Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Gen. John Buford, and soon reinforced with two corps of Unioninfantry. However, two large Confederate corps assaulted them from the northwest and north, collapsing the hastily developed Union lines, sending the defenders retreating through the streets of town to the hills just to the south.

On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled. The Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook. In the late afternoon of July 2, Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank, and fierce fighting raged at Little Round Top, theWheatfield, Devil's Den, and thePeach Orchard. On the Union right,demonstrations escalated into full-scale assaults onCulp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. All across the battlefield, despite significant losses, the Union defenders held their lines.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line onCemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge. The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great losses to the Confederate army. Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle. That November, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemeteryto honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address.

Answer 7

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