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George G. Meade
The South hoped to end the war in 1862 by invading Pennsylvania, but it lead to America’s bloodiest day of battle.
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John Mead Gould spent a single day at Antietam. The battle consumed him for the rest of his life. Read more >>
In only minutes, Union guns at Gettysburg silenced the Confederacy's bold invasion of the North
Not until 2:30 p.m. on July 3, 1863, did the ear-splitting bombardment finally slacken on the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania. Nothing like it had ever been experienced before in America, or would be again. Read more >>
Once the South was beaten, Eastern and Western
troops of the Union army resented each other so violently that some feared for the survival of the
victorious government. Then the tension
disappeared in one happy stroke that gave the
United States its grandest pageant—and General
Sherman the proudest moment of his life.
When the Civil War sputtered out early in May 1865, there were two huge Union armies within a few days’ march of Washington, D.C. One was the Army of the Potomac, winner of the war in the East, commanded by Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade. Read more >>