battle, landmark, nineteenth century
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg was a battle fought on 1 July 1863 at Adams County, in what is now Pennsylvania, United States; it lasted 2 days. It was part of the American Civil War, which ran from 1861 to 1865. The recorded result: Union victory.
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Where it sits in the American Civil War
Record
| Date | 1 July 1863 to 3 July 1863 | |
|---|---|---|
| Place | Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States 39.811N, 77.226W | |
| Kind | Battle, nineteenth century | |
| Strength | 93,500–104,256 soldiers; 360 artillery pieces; 36 cavalry regiments | 65,000–75,000 men, possibly as many as 80,000; 270 artillery pieces; 9,500 cavalry |
| Casualties and losses | 23,049 | 23,000–28,000 |
| Commanders | ||
The ground today


The recorded site stands at about 158 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from 70 to 241 m, 172 m of relief, hilly country and today it is 46% tree cover, 32% grassland, 11% cropland.
Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.Nearest engagements
- Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day 1863, 0.1 km E
- Pickett's Charge 1863, 0.9 km W
- Battle of Gettysburg, First Day 1863, 0.9 km NW
- Gettysburg campaign 1863, 1.0 km W
- Battle of East Cemetery Hill 1863, 1.2 km N
In the same war
- Before: Skirmish of Littlestown 30 June 1863
- After: Battle of Carlisle 1 July 1863
- All 582 engagements of American Civil War
Elsewhere in 1863
- Battle of Camarón Mexico
- Bombardment of Kagoshima Japan
- Bear River Massacre United States
- Second Battle of Fort Wagner United States
- Battle of Whitestone Hill United States
Combat data (CDB90)
| Attacker: CS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | Defender: US ARMY OF THE POTOMAC | |
| Strength | 75,054 | 83,289 |
| Casualties | 28,063 (37.4%) | 23,049 (27.7%) |
| Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Outcome | defender won | |
| Duration | 3.1 days | |
| Front width | 5.1 km | 4.1 km |
| Attacker advanced | 3.3 km | |
From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 199), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.
The National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program maps this as the Gettysburg battlefield (site PA002): a study area of 73,551 acres, with a core area of 14,508 acres where the fighting was concentrated.
Battle of Gettysburg is one of 3,694 engagements of the 19th century in the atlas and one of 1,264 in present-day United States (34 in Pennsylvania).
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q33132, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Gettysburg, revision 1384307957, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Battlefield boundary and area from the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program (public domain). Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.