NEWS 8'S ED WEINSTOCK IS IN GETTYSBURG WITH MORE. ED? THE BUILDING BEHIND ME IS WORLD FAMOUS AS GENERAL LEES HEADQUARTERS IN GETTYSBURG PART OF A HOTEL COMPLEX WEST OF TOWN AND ITS NEVER HAD THE ...

GUNFIRE ] BOTH UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES HURRY TO GETTYSBURG. UNION COMMANDING GENERAL MEADE SAYS... "I AM GOING RIGHT AT THEM AND WILL SETTLE THIS THING ONE WAY OR THE OTHER." LEE ARRIVES AT ...

Lee should have won. Since his appointment as commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia in June 1862 a year before Gettysburg, Lee had become familiar with the strengths and weaknesses ...

Yet even now, 150 years after the battle ended on July 3, 1863 with the defeat of Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg continues to exert a visceral pull on Americans ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.

Pickett’s Charge was meant to be the moment the Confederacy triumphed at Gettysburg—it ended in ... and relentless Union firepower unraveled General Lee’s bold plan. As soldiers marched ...

Tweeted King: ‘Trump: “Gettysburg! Wow!” What a dimbulb.’ Many more critics seized upon Trump’s view of General Lee, who led the Confederate war effort and who Trump quoted in his speech ...

Most succinct of the answers was that of the Detroit Free Press: General Lee was incapacitated by a “dysentery spell.”- As the second battle of Gettysburg spread north and west at week’s end ...

“I do not wish to bring on a general engagement today,” he told Heth. “Longstreet is not up.” But it was too late, and Lee saw an opportunity to annihilate the Federal vanguard at ...

It is at Gettysburg that we get one of the most vivid of the few pictures left us of Lee in the very midst of the crash and tumult of conflict. It is from the excellent pen of General Alexander ...

On this anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg, we recall the incredible role of the Pennsylvania Fighting 69th, all Irish immigrants in stopping Pickett’s charge, General Lee ...

Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of Gettysburg ... Union – led by Major General George Meade - defeated ...