{"id":5875,"date":"2026-07-01T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:31:24","slug":"battle-of-gettysburg-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5875","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Gettysburg Began in 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/common\/uploads\/photogallery\/ner\/park\/gett\/C7966A3A-155D-451F-67EF7EFF9727B4BE\/C7966A3A-155D-451F-67EF7EFF9727B4BE-large.jpg\" alt=\"Stone wall on Cemetery Ridge\" width=\"202\" height=\"134\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stone Wall on Cemetery Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Battle of Gettysburg began in 1863<\/strong>. Many experts call this battle the turning point of the Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops across the Mason-Dixon Line, heading for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. However, the northern troops, led by General George Mead, met the Confederate troops at Gettysburg. The battle lasted for three days. On the last day of the battle, the rebel troops commenced Picket\u2019s Charge. Fifteen thousand troops tried to assail the Union\u2019s position. The northern troops held, and Lee lost the battle. Idea: Children\u00a0could make a timeline of the battle. Michael Shaara\u2019s book, <em>Killer Angels<\/em>, offers in-depth looks at the people fighting on both sides. Children could visit a website at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gett\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gett\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle of Gettysburg began in 1863. Many experts call this battle the turning point of the Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops across the Mason-Dixon Line, heading for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. However, the northern troops, led by General George Mead, met the Confederate troops at Gettysburg. The battle lasted for three <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5875' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4779,514,356,5674,60],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4779","tag-battle-of-gettysburg","tag-civil-war","tag-july-1","tag-pennsylvania","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22625,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/22625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}