Holding Cemetery Ridge



On this date in eighteen hundred and sixty-three

The start of the biggest battle of Civil War history

It was the day when Lee began assaulting Gettysburg

Convinced he had the edge over the Federal herd ...



At the end of the three day battle waged by the greys

Six and a half thousand men lost life, over the days 

Ten thousand men were captured or had disappeared

Thirty-two thousand men were wounded, and fears



The Union Army would attack the Confederate retreat

Were unrealized, perhaps, because of the rain sheet

Which so severely hampered soldiers on both sides 

The Battle of Gettysburg turned the Civil War's tide



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

8:55pm Thurs. July 1st, 1999