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Bloodest one day battle 23,000 casualties
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Jul 1, 1863 – Jul 3, 1863 bloodiest 3 day battle ever recorded in american history
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"On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That speech has come to be known as the Gettysburg Address."
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"On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant."
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"Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C"
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May 12, 1865 – May 13, 1865 Final battle of the Civil War
