Century Collection Gettysburg Map with Civil War Relic Framed Photograph

by Century Collection

Product Features

• Framed with authentic recovered civil war bullet
• Framed and matted photo with relic
• Civil war bullet relic
• Certificate of authenticity
• Own a piece of history

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0019TZB1Y
• Item model number: CC1168
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 months and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #385,000 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Battle of Gettysburg July 1 to July 3, 1863, fought in, and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war’s turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee’s invasion of the North. Following his success at Chancellorsville in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley for his second invasion of the North, hoping to reach as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia, and to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war. The two armies collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there. Low ridges to the northwest of the town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division, which was soon reinforced with two corps of Union infantry. On the second day of battle, most of both armies had assembled. The Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook. On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp’s Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Pickett’s Charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire at great losses to the Confederate army. Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia. That November, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the dead, both Union and Confederate, and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic Gettysburg Address. The framed map of the Battle of Gettysburg contains an authentic excavated American Civil War 58 Caliber three ring Bullet with certificate of authenticity.