One hundred and fifty years ago, America experienced three bloody days unlike any others in its history. The Battle of Gettysburg left 51,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead, maimed or missing. As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the historic battle, explore seven ways that Gettysburg changed the course of the Civil War—and the history of America itself.
Gettysburg ended the Confederacy’s last full-scale invasion of the North.