Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic The Battles that Made Abraham

The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln rests upon a wide foundation of research

which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men of the Blue and the Gray

by Eric Wittenburg and Scott Mingus

and when the two armies departed a few days later

Confrontation At Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, A Cause Lost (John David Hoptak - GC) rustic The Battles that Made Abrahamby John David Hoptak Gettysburg is America's most famous battle. Fought on the first three days of July 1863, it was one of the largest and by far the bloodiest of the Civil War. Yet the importance of this great conflagration cannot be measured in numbers alone, for Gettysburg also represented a pivotal moment in the war. The battle ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of Union soil, and never again did a Confederate army reach that far