July 1-3 is the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Thousands of visitors and re-enactors will be gathering there these days to remember this important moment in our history. The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War and the Union victory there in the summer of 1863 ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. It is often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy" and it was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. Gettysburg also provided President Abraham Lincoln with the setting for his most famous address.
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