Gettysburg is just so massive and spread out in comparison to Antietam so it is just harder to wrap your head around. Antietam/Sharpsburg is three phases in ONE day (17-SEP-1862) while Gettysburg lasts over three DAYS. 1-Jul to 3-Jul, 1863.
It is interesting to me that history can pick out moments in the battle with a particular maneuver or event by a regiment or brigade that could have greatly altered the outcome of the war (for the south in most cases at these battlefields, which the battles were considered Union victories both). There were brave infantry charges on both sides in both battles, where the soldiers involved must have known their pre-determined fate by conducting the charge...
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