
Gettysburg Celebration
Two veterans shake hands at the Gettysburg Celebration in Pennsylvania in 1913.
Image: Library of Congress

Gettysburg Celebration
Two veterans shake hands at the Gettysburg Celebration in Pennsylvania in 1913.
Image: Library of Congress
To artist Edwin Forbes, William Jackson of the 12th New York was an everyman Union soldier, a “solemn lad… toughened by campaigning.” There was much more to Jackson’s story.
Joe Johnston and James Longstreet manipulated the truth to deflect blame for the Confederate loss.
Sickles nearly cost the Union Army at Gettysburg by breaking George Meade’s orders.
Travel along the famous sites of Gettysburg, from the Cashtown Inn to Lee’s headquarters, from the eyes of the locals.