WHAT IS GETTYSBURG?
During the time after the great Gold Rush in California that start in 1848 and continued into the 1850’s the northern and southern states were at odds with each other over a few different issues. There was a lot of tension building between the two sides. With the firing on Fort Sumter by southerners the war began. The first shots in return were ordered by then Captain Abner Doubleday. Doubleday played a role in Gettysburg too as a Major General on the first day of the battle. However, he is probably best known and credited for inventing modern day Baseball and its becoming the great American pastime. The north and south were fighting a fairly even war of which most was fought on Southern soil. The war was going on much too long for some, especially in the north. General Robert E Lee decided to take the war to the north in hopes that victory there might end the war through victory or some kind of agreeable truce. It happened that the northern and southern troops met face to face in a sm
