The Battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, was the largest and most important battle of the Civil War. The Army of the Potomac, now led by Gen. Meade, was able to repel the Confederate advance.

Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...

Lee’s victory enabled him to take his army across the Potomac and into western Maryland, where he and McClellan would battle again at Antietam. ALSO READ: The 14 Largest Battles of the Civil War ...

THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.; Extracts from Gen. Halleck's Report to the Secretary of War. Share full article. Dec. 3, 1862.

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

ANTIETAM IRON WORKS, Md., Monday, Oct. 6, 1862. The rebels made their appearance yesterday, in small force opposite this place, for the evident purpose of -- showing themselves.

The bloodiest battle of the Civil War happened in Pennsylvania. During the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army fought Gen. George G. Meade’s Army of the ...

Bruce Catton’s stirring narrative of the Civil War’s Eastern theater put the focus on the lot of the common soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

During the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Maj. Gen. John Reynolds -- commander of the 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac -- was killed instantly after being shot in the neck.

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday. ... commander of the Army of the Potomac, organized to improve morale. ...

After a slow and discouraging lack of progress during the war’s first two years, Lincoln assigned Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside to command the Army of the Potomac, the principal Union army in the east.