On the final day of battle in Gettysburg, the Union army turns back one of the largest infantry assaults of the war – Pickett’s Charge. Although still full of fight, the battered Confederate army must retreat. In the end, 51,000 men have been killed, wounded or captured during three days of fighting. Abraham Lincoln best expresses the historical significance of the battle in the Gettysburg Address, “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
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