USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Confederate troops suffered 28, 000 casualties during the three-day battle, while the Union army sustained 25, 000 casualties. Gettysburg was the pivotal (turning-point) battle of the Civil War, marking the farthest north the Confederate army would ever reach.

Detailed explanation-2: -The northernmost battle of the Civil War was fought in St. Albans, Vermont, on October 19, 1864. A group of 22 Confederate soldiers, led by Lt.

Detailed explanation-3: -"It’s the northernmost Confederate land action during the Civil War, but it takes place way the heck up in Vermont, which is 500 or 600 miles away from where the major scene of the action was taking place down in Virginia and farther south.

Detailed explanation-4: -Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee’s attempt to invade the North. After his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North-the Gettysburg Campaign.

Detailed explanation-5: -The High-Water Mark of the Confederacy or “high tide of the Confederacy” refers to an area on Cemetery Ridge near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, marking the farthest point reached by Confederate forces during the action known as Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863.