Gettysburg Day 3 Flashcards
What does General Lee do after the Confederates are UNsuccessful on attacking the North Union line?
Sends General Picket on the frontal assault on Cemetery Ridge
What does the South do once they’re at Cemetery Ridge?
Begins firing artillery
What does the North think the Confederates are doing once they begin shooting?
That the South is retreating
What does the Union do once they think the south is retreating?
The Union stops firing ammunition to save it
What does General Lee think once the Union stops firing ammunition?
That the Union’s artillery is destroyed
What does General Lee order once he thinks the Union’s artillery is destroyed?
Lee order’s General Picket’s charge at the frontal assault on the Union line
Once General Picket is firing at the Union’s line the north does what?
Begins firing ammunition causing 1/4 Confederate soldiers to survive
After only 1/4 Confederate soldiers survives after the north fires what does Lee do?
General Lee retreats but General Meade doesn’t follow due to bad weather
The Union could have won the war but failed due to?
Counterattack
Gettysburg is considered the?
The bloodiest battle of the war
How many Union and Confederate soldiers died?
23,000 Union
20,000 Confederate
On Day 3 who attacks who?
The Confederates attack the North of the Union line but are UNsuccessful
