Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen.Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers from both armies were casualties in the three-day battle.

Battle of Gettysburg in Days of Infamy
When the news of the defeat in the 1st Battle of the North Pacific was broken to the general public, along with German advances in Russia and North Africa, news caster Lowell Thomas reminded his listeners that the up coming Fourth of July day would be the anxious in the nations history since the 1863, when the armies of the North and South clashed at Gettysburg.