General Meade, with a numerical superiority of…

July 1863 CE

General Meade, with a numerical superiority of fifteen thousand men, drives Confederate General Jubal A. Early off Seminary Ridge in a decisive action on July 2.

This second day sees great number of desperate attacks and counterattacks in an attempt to gain control of such locations as Little Round Top, Cemetery Hill, Devil's Den, the Wheatfield, and the Peach Orchard.

There are again heavy losses on both sides.

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Gettysburg Adams Pennsylvania United States View →

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Abraham Lincoln View → George Gordon Meade View → James Longstreet View → Jubal Early View → Richard Stoddert Ewell View → Robert E. Lee View →

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Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Eastern Theater of the American Civil War View → Gettysburg, Battle of View → Gettysburg Campaign View →

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