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According to him, it is likely that one-third of each army was either killed or wounded.

Guelzo explained that the results of the battle were catastrophic for the South and not just because the Rebels suffered massive casualties. Though not completely defeated as Lincoln had hoped it would be, General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was forced on the defensive for the remaining 21 months of the war.ĭr. “After Gettysburg the sun never shone for the South again,” he said. Guelzo, Gettysburg was the battle that decided the fate of the Civil War. Guelzo’s lecture focused on why Gettysburg was such an important battle. He is also the three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize and the director of the Civil War Studies Era at Gettysburg College.ĭr. Guelzo is the leading authority on the Civil War, Reconstruction, and President Abraham Lincoln.

staff members, first went to Gettysburg College where they listened to a lecture by Historian Allen Guelzo. The group, made up of Hillsdale students, alumni, and Hillsdale in D.C. Just before Remembrance Day, the Saturday closest to the day Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, Hillsdale’s WHIP (Washington Hillsdale Internship Program) students participated in a field study of the Battle of Gettysburg.