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Key Battles of the Civil War

Episode 13: The Battle of Gettysburg

Key Battles of the Civil War

Key Battles of the Civil War

Society & Culture

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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The 1863 Battle of Gettysburg stopped Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. It was the deadliest battle of the Civil War, with over 50,000 casualties during the three day battle, a scale of suffering never seen before or since in America. The...

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The Civil War was the most important event in American history.

0:59.0

That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be, and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.

1:07.2

And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.

1:11.4

Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast.

1:26.6

Welcome everyone to our series on the most important battles in the Civil War.

1:30.1

This is possibly our marquee episode, the Battle of Gettysburg.

1:35.5

If you know very little about the Civil War, which before the series, I would include myself in this camp.

1:40.9

And depending on what you think of my opinions, you might still think I'm in that camp, but definitely not James, who has been guiding us through this very well. We are going to look at the Battle of Gettysburg. If you remember in the last episode, we looked at the fall of Vicksburg, which was a critical city that allowed the Confederacy to maintain control of the Mississippi River, allowed it to ferry

2:02.0

equipment and troops up and down it, most importantly gave them access to the American

2:07.0

West and Mexico and gave them the supplies they needed to continue the war effort.

2:12.5

Vicksburg fell, which some referred to Vicksburg as one of, if not the turning points of the Civil War.

2:19.4

But at the end of Vicksburg, after the city's fall, news came from the east of something else that happened,

2:26.5

that was catastrophic for the Confederacy, but we didn't mention what that was.

2:31.8

Well, Gettysburg, you may have heard about it in class if you're from the United

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