The battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1-3, 1863, in rural southern Pennsylvania, was both chronologically and emotionally close to the midpoint of the U.S. Civil War . Occurring a little over two years after the conflict began, the Confederate defeat meant that their planned invasion of the North and hopes of replenishing supplies from yet-unravaged Yankee farmland had failed. Union cities were safe from Confederate advances, and with only a few exceptions, after Gettysburg, Southern armies did not present serious threats to Union territory. It would take nearly another two years to die, but the Confederacy left the battlefield mortally wounded.

As a critical moment in the United States' most romanticized war, Gettysburg is one of the most famous battles in American history . It

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