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the battle took place around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. the Gettysburg address was called a "Monumental Act" by Abraham Lincoln, also there were five copies sent out to different people who received them, 2 of the copies were sent out before the speech.

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History.com Staff. “Battle of Gettysburg.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg.

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On July 4th, Lee expected and prepared for an Union army assault but it never came. Lee withdrew his forces and moved toward Virginia. Union casualties in the battle numbered 23,000, while the Confederates had lost some 28,000 men–more than a third of Lee’s army.

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Early on the morning of July 3, Union forces of the Twelfth Army Corps pushed back a Confederate threat against Culp’s Hill after a seven-hour firefight and regained their strong position. Believing his men had been on the brink of victory the day before, Lee decided to send three divisions, preceded by an artillery barrage, against the Union center on Cemetery Ridge. Lee sent a mere 15000 men to strike the Union forces. After a confederate artillery barrage the Union soldiers open fired behind stone walls, while other regiments attacked their flacks. Barely half of the Confederates survived and Lee struggled to gather up their remaining troops to make a defense.

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As the next day dawned, the Union Army had established strong positions from Culp’s Hill to Cemetery Ridge. Lee decided to attack midday and ordered some troops to go in from the left and others to go to the right. They didn't get their men into position until 4pm when Union soldiers open fired on the Confederates. Over the next several hours, bloody fighting raged along Sickles’ line, which stretched from the nest of boulders known as Devil’s Den into a peach orchard, as well as in a nearby wheat field and on the slopes of Little Round Top.The combined casualty total from two days of fighting came to nearly 35,000, the largest two-day toll of the war.

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As General Lee heard that the Union forces were on their way, he prepared his troops on the crossroads of Gettysburg. Hill's troops were the first to move onto the town and only finding two Union Calvary divisions. Stonewall Jackson soon pressed their attack before more Union soldiers could arrive. However, Ewell declined the order to attack and gave the Union soldiers an opportunity to make a solid defense on a hill.

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The battle of Gettysburg lasted for three days from July 1st to July 3rd. The Union army blockaded against the Confederates in Gettysburg hoping to defend the city. It is considered one of the most important battles in the Civil War and one that inspired Lincoln to write a meager 272 word speech at the cemetery of the battle.