In this episode of Compact Warfare, we explore the Battle of Gettysburg, the three-day clash that became one of the defining moments of the American Civil War. Fought from 1 to 3 July 1863, Gettysburg saw Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia collide with George Meade’s Army of the Potomac in the fields, ridges, orchards, and rocky hills around a small Pennsylvania town. From the first shots west of Gettysburg to the desperate fighting at Little Round Top and the doomed assault remembered as Pickett’s Charge, this episode follows the battle’s course and explains why its consequences reached far beyond the battlefield. Gettysburg did not end the war, but it changed its direction, strengthened the Union cause, and became forever linked with sacrifice, memory, and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
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