The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War, it is often described as the war's turning point. Union Major General 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. The print captures the chaos of war. Soldiers move a cannon to a firing position. They are protected in the rear by soldiers firing guns. Dead and dying soldiers and horses. Messenger of horseback. Print of a painting by Alonzo Chappel.