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Pickett's Charge
On the last day of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee ordered that his men would be fighting on foot against George Meade's Union army. The Union had tricked the Confederates into believing that they had no more ammunition. Most of Charles Pickett's men who charged up the hill received a barrage of bullets and were either killed or captured. -
The Gettysburg Address
A speech given by Abraham Lincoln that was addressed to the fallen Union soldiers in honor of their service to the country during the Battle of Gettysburg. The site of this speech was Soldiers' National Cemetary where approximately 50,000 soldiers died.