Conclusion

Although this was one of the many Battles fought during the Civil War Gettysburg was the turning point of this conflict. For the loss of life it was the worse, more Americans died in the three days of the battle than died in any other battle past or present.
The United States might have been a different place today if Lee’s forces had won, and were able to march onto Washington. You could say this battle formed the country we now know as United States their people, their politics. Out of it came a Nation reconciled to one and other able to see each others point of view, in general a more tolerant people. The great example of this was in a speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the war cemetery at Gettysburg in the November of 1863. He was not going to be invited to the opening as at the time he was not in favour with the government. The Speech was short but it was one of the most prolific speeches ever given, it is now known as the Gettysburg Address
 

Casualties

The Confederate Casualties were eventually over 28,000

The Dead on the Field of Gettysburg

President Lincoln's Speech at the Dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery

GO TELL THE SPARTANS, STRANGER PASSING BY

THAT HERE OBEDIENT TO THEIR LAWS WE LIE

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