Answer: Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in Adams County
Generals
Union General: George G. Meade
Confederate General: Robert E. Lee
Soldiers Engaged
Union Army: 82,289
Confederate Army: 75,000
Outcome
Union victory
Dates
Battle Dates: July 1-3, 1863
Important Events & Figures
Pickett’s Charge
The Devil’s Den
Assault of Culp’s Hill
Assault of Cemetery Hill
Defense of Little Round Top
Defense of Big Round Top
The Wheatfield
The Peach Orchard
Cemetery Ridge
20th Maine Regiment
Battle Of Gettysburg:Day 2
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address Text
Gettysburg Casualties
23,049 Union
28,063 Confederate
Explanation: Battle Summary: The Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (July 1–July 3, 1863), was the largest battle of the American Civil War as well as the largest battle ever fought in North America, involving around 85,000 men in the Union’s Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and approximately 75,000 in the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert Edward Lee. Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529 wounded, 5,365 missing). Confederate casualties were 28,063 (3,903 dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing), more than a third of Lee’s army.
These largely irreplaceable losses to the South’s largest army, combined with the Confederate surrender of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, marked what is widely regarded as a turning point—perhaps the turning point—in the Civil War, although the conflict would continue for nearly two more years and witness several more major battles, including Chickamauga, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Monocacy, Nashville, etc.