The High-Water Mark of the Confederacy - NYTimes.com

Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.

CIVIL WAR (US) (1861-65), GETTYSBURG (MOVIE), GETTYSBURG (PA), LEE, ROBERT E
After two days of indecisive conflict, the Union Army sealed its victory at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, by repulsing a Confederate attack over nearly a mile of open ground, directed at the center of the federal defense. The attack involved 13,000 soldiers from five states under the command of Gen. James Longstreet, but lives historically as Pickett’s Charge. The attack is one of the most infamous in military history, yet most people know little about it. What happened, exactly, on that afternoon in July?