What It Was Actually Like To Fight In the Battle of Gettysburg

Americans learn that the Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, in which 50,000 soldiers died or were seriously injured over three days of fighting. We also learn that it became a cemetery that spawned a speech from President Lincoln that was short enough for students to memorize. But what was it like to be there during the fighting? To answer that question, Weird History brings us the stories of individual soldiers who were there and witnessed the carnage and the accounts of officers who kept track of the action, plus those of support teams, journalists, and the civilians who lived in the area. They say that history is written by the victors; at Gettysburg there was a lot of history written by those who were lucky enough to survive.