Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic by Eric Wittenburg and Scott

by Eric Wittenburg and Scott Mingus

James Oakes shows that Lincoln’s landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation: it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation

and when the two armies departed a few days later

a staunch northern abolitionist

The battle of New Market

Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic by Eric Wittenburg and Scottby John David Hoptak Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far