Gettysburg Flashcards
John Buford
Slows down confederates, union maintains the hills.
Confederate General Ewell
Takes over for Stonewall - fails to capture cemetery hill
(Conf.) general Longstreet
Leads the attack to capture little and big right top
Fierce fighting in areas
Peach orchard
Devils den
Wheatfield
Slaughter pen
1st Minnesota
Stop the confederate advance 215 out of 262 dead.
Marshall Sherman
Captured a flag from the 28th Virginia during Pickett’s charge
General Hancock
“There are times when a corps commanders life does not matter”
July 1863
1st-3rd PA
They went to Gettysburg because
They heard that there were shoes there
North came from the south
South came from the north
28th Virginia flag was captured on
The 3rd day
Private Sherman
Congestional Medal of Honor
General Hancock orders charge
General Sickells goes in front
Confederates reach
The angle
Union yells
“Fredericksburg”
Lee says
“It’s all my fault”
Pickett quotes
“General Lee I have no division.”
“Up men and to your posts. Today let no man forget he is from old Virginia.”
Little Round Top
Cemetery hill
Big round top
Culp’s hill
Lee brings the war north to end it he also
Needs supplies
Copperheads
People who want the war to end
Confederate Calvary leader
Jen Stuart
Union Calvary leader
Buford
Union Soldiers 85,000
Confederate soldiers 70,000
Confederate leader
Lee
Union leader
Meade
Jeb Stuart
Confederate Calvary leader that was supposed to find the union and report back but failed
