AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
END OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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51, 000
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5, 000
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15, 000
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25, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -As many as 51, 000 soldiers from both armies are killed, wounded, captured or missing in the three-day battle. The carnage is overwhelming, but the Union victory buoys Lincoln’s hopes of ending the war.
Detailed explanation-2: -Between 46, 000 and 51, 000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle, the most costly in US history.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Confederates were outnumbered-with 71, 000 fighting in the battle, and a greater proportion wounded and killed. 28, 000 Southerners were casualties in the battle-39% of its total fighting force that day-with of them 3, 900 killed.
Detailed explanation-4: -On July 3, 1863, Union troops repelled a massive artillery assault on Cemetery Ridge during the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg in southern Pennsylvania. During the early morning hours Confederate General Robert E. Lee ordered General Longstreet to prepare General Pickett’s troops for the assault.
Detailed explanation-5: -Cutler’s 1, 007 men became casualties, with the 147th losing 207 of its 380 officers and men. Some of Davis’s victorious men turned toward the Union positions south of the railroad bed while others drove east toward Seminary Ridge.