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   blahflippinblah2012 Student
   High School - 9th Grade

   It was the first MAJOR victory for the Union

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   Posted by blahflippinblah2012 on Thursday May 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM
   
   

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   pmiranda2857 Teacher
   High School - 11th Grade

   The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest and most significant of the war.  Around 160,000 Americans faced each other over a 3 day period.  When it was over, more than 50,000 Americans were dead.  The Confederate army brought 75,000 men to the battle, losing 28,000 soldiers. The Union Army brought 90,000 soldiers to the battle, losing 23,000.

   The Battle of Gettysburg, although not the end of the war, is known as the turning point of the Civil War.  It was at this time that the Confederate forces were forced to give up their plan to move the war further north.

   The Battle of Gettysburg took place over three days in July 1863.  The war did not end until 1865.

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   Posted by pmiranda2857 on Thursday May 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM
   
   

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   nutmegger Teacher
   High School - 10th Grade

   The signifigance of the Battle of Gettysburg is the fact that it was a watershed moment in the Civil War.  Prior to the battle the southern forces, lead by Robert E. Lee had largely controled the military course of the war.  Lee had invaded the north one other time the previous year resulting in a costly draw.  His second invasion of the north was intended to give relief to the state of Virginia from the constant fighting, and to threaten Washington DC and possibly end the war with a southern victory on northern soil.

        Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was at its strongest point in the war prior to Gettysburg, and he used the strength of his army to carry out a bold plan to carry the war to the north.  General Geroge Gordon Meade defeated Lee at Gettysburg; a defeat that nearly crippled Lee's army. 

       After the battle Lee's army was never able to go on the offensive again, and the Civil War went on to become a war of attrition with the Union bleeding the Confederate states to death.

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   Posted by nutmegger on Tuesday May 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM
   
   

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