Gettysburg

Gettysburg was a battle that lasted for three days. It had the largest amount of casualties in one battle in the entire Civil War. In the battle, the Confederates were losing. They took one last desperate chance, Pickett's Charge. General Pickett led his soldiers to attack the center of the Union lines. It was a bad move. The rebels lost over fifty percent of their men in this one battle command. Gettysburg was a Union victory. If the Confederates had won, they might have won the war. That is how important this battle was. European powers would have probably come to help the rebels if they had won. The fate of the war was decided at this battle. After the battle, Lincoln came and gave his famous speech, The Gettysburg Address. It motivated all of the soldiers in the Union to fight even harder so that these dead did not die in vain.