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Gettysburg: The Battle Still Beckons
With combined casualties of some 50,000 (estimated at 23,000 dead and wounded Union troops, 25,000 to 28,000 Confederate troops), Gettysburg is the bloodiest battle the United States has ever fought. Roughly a third of those who fought were hit. Rival gunners staged the greatest artillery duel ever waged in North America. Echoes of that duel were said to have been audible 140 miles away. By the end of the third day the Confederate army was crippled forever as an offensive threat and Lee's reputation among serious military analysts had plummeted. Lincoln's brief remarks at the dedication of the national cemetery in Gettysburg four and a half months after the battle stand as one of the most profound commentaries ever delivered by an American politician. Early on the morning of July 1, 1863, yet another of these frequent skirmishes began just northwest of Gettysburg, where a Confederate force sent to explore the town for supplies met resistance from a smaller, but determined group of Union outriders. This time neither side broke off. The Confederates fought the Union soldiers back through the streets of Gettysburg itself, but could not dislodge the federal forces from the gentle hills on the eastern edge of town. Both sides called for reinforcements. As successive waves of Union and Confederate units responded to those calls, what began as a skirmish after dawn quickly turned into a major battle by noon. Finally, a short walk through the national cemetery, where thousands from both sides are buried, leads to the marked spot from which President [Abraham Lincoln] delivered his \"Gettysburg Address.\" There is not much to see there, but a great deal to think about as you stroll among the grave markers. The New York Times called Gettysburg the \"The Most Terrible Struggle of the War\" in its headline of July 6, 1863. Lincoln gave it meaning, however, in words that still resonate, and there is no better place to ponder them than at Gettysburg itself. Tomorrow is the 127th anniversary of his address. Getting around the battlefield The Basics
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Frontiersmen All
ALL WE WHITE Americns are the descendants of frontiersmen; the first colonists in daring the terrible voyage across the Atlantic in the seventeenth century were moved by the same urge that pushed their great grandsons westward across the plains. It is inevitable therefore that as a people we should be restless, impatient of restraint and prone to move on.
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