Sketch of the Battles of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863.
- Creator(s):
- Ditterline, T[heodore].
- Title:
- Sketch of the Battles of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863.
- Description:
- In 1862 and 1863, the Union was able to turn back the Confederate invasion, but at great cost. The September 1862 battle at Antietam, Maryland, was the single bloodiest day of the war with over 22,000 combined casualties. The Union’s victory at Antietam gave President Lincoln the military ascendancy he’d been looking for as a prelude to issuing an Emancipation Proclamation to free all enslaved persons in areas that continued to rebel. [Please see the copy of the Emancipation Proclamation near the exhibition entrance.]
- Source:
- Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.
- Citation:
- Ditterline, T[heodore]. Sketch of the Battles of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863. New York: O.A. Alvord, 1864.