{"id":2746,"date":"2010-07-13T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:58:35","slug":"battle-of-gettysburg-day-one-july-1-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/07\/13\/battle-of-gettysburg-day-one-july-1-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Gettysburg Day One – July 1, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Early on the morning of July 1, 1863 Union soldiers met Confederate General Robert E. Lee<\/a> in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania<\/a> after his initial invasion into the state. The first of three days of battle centered around Gettysburg and saw a promising start for the Confederate force. Confederates successfully pushed Union soldiers out of the town and left the latter force with one of the only remaining defensive positions in the area \u2013 Cemetery Hill \u2013 located southeast of Gettysburg. After the fighting ceased around 4:30PM, Union\u00a0General George G. Meade<\/a> and other military leaders oversaw the arrival of Union reinforcements and prepared for the next day\u2019s battle. Meanwhile, Lee\u2019s forces began securing their occupation of the town and planning the logistics for the new offensive strategy the general had undertaken.<\/p>\n

A broad research engine will yield several thousand resources and images pertaining to the Battle of Gettysburg and its first day of combat. Navigating through these sources only highlights a select few that offer a clear, accurate, and useful resource for lesson plans and scholarly research. Fortunately,\u00a0the National Archives collection<\/a> of Civil War photographs includes those taken of casualties in the\u00a0battle<\/a> and the House Divided record of the battle offers historical maps<\/a> of the area. Military dispatches from the first day contained in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies<\/a>,<\/em> as provided by Cornell University’s Making of America collection, cover\u00a0the preceding day<\/a> through to the last dispatch on the evening of July 1<\/a>st<\/a><\/sup>. By combining each of these online resources into a short film<\/a> on the Battle of Gettysburg, the U.S. Army\u2019s website offers educators an easily navigable and short exploration of how the battle began and concluded.<\/p>\n

Some historians separate the first day of combat in Gettysburg from the rest of the battle. Educators and scholars can view many of these close explorations in part on Google Books, including Warren W. Hassler, Jr.\u2019s The First Day at Gettysburg: Crisis at the Crossroads<\/a><\/em> (1970) and The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership<\/a><\/em> (Edited by Gary W. Gallagher, 1992). More recent publications do not treat the first day as a separate entity, but they expand the historiography of the battle, as seen in Margaret S. Creighton\u2019s The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg\u2019s Forgotten History<\/a><\/em> (2005) and its focus<\/a> on immigrants and women affected by the battle. For educators searching for modern scholarship on the battle as a symbol of the Civil War and legend in American history, Thomas A. Desjardin\u2019s These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory<\/a><\/em> (2003) revisits the popular story of the Battle of Gettysburg and the persistent myths one can trace back to the first day of combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early on the morning of July 1, 1863 Union soldiers met Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after his initial invasion into the state. The first of three days of battle centered around Gettysburg and saw a promising start for the Confederate force. Confederates successfully pushed Union soldiers out of the town and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}