It was nearly impossible to bury all the corpses that fell onto the battlefield, leaving some to say that their spirits still linger over a century later.
The Battle Of Gettysburg Was A Bloodbath
Men examine the bodies of two dead sharpshooters
The Confederate Army arrived in Pennsylvania confidently under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who was riding high from his previous victory at Chancellorsville.
Much to his dismay, however, his army waned during the conflict. A combination of faulty intelligence and ineffective battle strategies compounded in a Confederate loss and the Union’s victory at Gettysburg was no doubt a turning point for them in the Civil War.
The Battle of Gettysburg had been particularly gruesome, having lasted for three days with 8,000 men killed outright on the battlefield. The extent of the carnage established Gettysburg as a “harvest of death.”
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