Epiloge

 

 
JULY 1, 1863
JULY 2, 1863
JULY 3, 1863
WORKS CITED

 

Aftermath

Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia

Meade's army is in terrible shape. Three of his corps commanders have gone down, and many other division and brigand commanders. The I and III corps are a total wreck and he is unable to pursue Lee activly for several days. The Army of the Potomac goes on to fight Lee time and again the next year and in April 1865 they recieve Lee's surrender.

Lee's crushed army does escape from Gettysburg. On July 4, 1863 Lee withdraws his army south back to Virginia. He manages to escape across the flooded potomac river. The army survives to fight the Federals once more in spring of 1864. Lee puts up a defiant struggle but he is never again able to deliver a hard defeat. He surrenders his army to U.S. Grant in April of 1865.

 

Casualties

Army of the Potomac
Army of Northern Virginia
CAPTURED:

CAPTURED:
WOUNDED:
WOUNDED:
KILLED: KILLED:

 

Command Casualties

FEDERAL
CONFEDERATE
Major General John F. Reynolds, I Corps, killed July 1, 1863
Major General W. D. Pender, III Corps, mortally wounded July 1, 1863
Major General Winfield Hacock, II Corps, wounded July 3, 1863
Major General Henry Heth, III Corps, wounded July 1, 1863
Major General Danial Sickles, III Corps, wounded July 2, 1863
Major General John B. Hood, I Corps, wounded July 2, 1863
Brig. General John Gibbon, II Corps, wounded July 3, 1863
Brig. General Lewis Armistead, I Corps, mortally wounded July 3, 1863
Brig. General Francis Barlow, XI Corps, wounded July 1, 1863
Brig. General Richard Garnett, I Corps, killed, July 3, 1863
Brig. General Elon Farnsworth, Cavalry, killed July 3, 1863
Brig. General James Kemper, I Corps, wounded, July 3, 1863
Brig General George Willard, II Corps, killed, July 2, 1863
Brig. General Paul Semmes, I Corps, killed July 2, 1863
Brig. General Stephen Weed, V Corps, killed July 2, 1863
Brig. General William Barkesdale, I Corps, killed July 2, 1863
Brig. General Strong Vincent, V Corps, killed July 2, 1863
Brig. General Wade Hampton, Cavalry, wounded July 3, 1863
Brig. General S. K. Zook, II Corps, killed July 2, 1863
Brig. General J. J. Pettigrew, III Corps, wounded July 3, 1863
Brig. General Solomon Meredith, I Corps, July 1, 1863
Major General Isaac Trimbal, III Corps, wounded July 3, 1863

 

 

 

 

The Commanders

 

Federal
Confederate
The Gettysburg Address

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Araham Lincoln,

November 19, 1863