On July 3, 1863, 12,500 Confederate soldiers charged across open fields in a desperate bid to break Union lines at Gettysburg. Known as Pickett’s Charge, the assault became one of the Civil War ...

Adam Fleischer: Most historians consider the Battle of Gettysburg to be a turning point in the Civil War. It marked the Confederate Army's last major attempt to invade the North. And Pickett's charge ...

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Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett was a West Point graduate who joined the Confederacy after Virginia's secession. At Fredericksburg, Pickett's men ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

Until just a few years ago, the battlefield visitors center stood near Gettysburg’s “High Water Mark” (the farthest point reached in Pickett’s Charge) and within sight of a wax museum ...

Double Canister at Ten Yards is an excellent look at the Union artillery in action, and will prove a useful read for anyone with an interest in Gettysburg or in the artillery during the Civil War.

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

Although generally respected for his military prowess, he is often blamed for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg for allowing Pickett's Charge to occur. Yet Longstreet remained a prominent ...

On the tour, travelers will see Gettysburg National Military Park, Devils Den and Pickett's Charge. With the open-air tours, there’s a restroom/refreshment break as well as one (or more ...