Consider historian Drew Gilpin Faust’s description of the aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg in 1863: “By July 4, an estimated six million pounds of human and animal carcasses lay strewn ...

How brilliant a military leader are you? One of the most important battles of the U.S. Civil War -- and indeed of all U.S. history -- was the battle of Gettysburg. During the three days of July 1 ...

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg, the greatest ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. For three days, 150,000 men will fight to the ...

the role it played during the battle, the arduous aftermath endured by the town in the days that followed the fight and the roots of the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association ...