摘要：Following two days of intensive battle in the hills and ridges south of Gettysburg, Pa., GEN Robert E. Lee hurled his Army of Northern Virginia against the Union center anchored on Cemetery Ridge on the sweltering afternoon of July 3, 1863. Operationally brilliant but tactically flawed, the Gettysburg campaign constituted GEN Lee’s all-out effort to destroy the Union Army of the Potomac on Northern soil. Lee’s strategic goal was to so demoralize the Northern supporters of the war that public opinion would pressure President Abraham Lincoln’s administration to recognize the Confederate States of America and terminate the Civil War.
