The Soldiers' National Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park ... gravestones at the site of the pivotal battle in the US Civil War appear to have started on a hoax Facebook page.
"The Civil War was the most important event ... Head up the gentle slope of Cemetery Hill, where the "Gettysburg Address" was delivered, and where Union artillery repelled all Rebel approaches.
"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death." The three days of conflict at Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Courtesy: Library of Congress ...
But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the war's end ... heavy artillery fire and repeated ...
He comments on the Civil War-era artillery and rifles on display in ... and Denzel Washington; "Gettysburg" (1993), starring Jeff Daniels; and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012), starring ...
On the afternoon of July 3rd, a thunderous artillery barrage ... to seek a negotiated end to the war -- on Southern terms. The South had won the war at Gettysburg.