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Excerpt from Final Report of the Gettysburg Battle Field Commission of New Jersey: Appointed and Acting Under Acts of April 20th, 1885, April 27th, 1886, and March 16th, 1887 The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on the first, second and third days of July, 1863, by General Meade, commanding the First, Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps, and the 'cavalry Corps and Reserve Artillery Corps of the Army of the Potomac, on the Federal side, and General Lee, commanding the Army of Northern Virginia, on the Confederate side. The battle was the culmination of General Lee's famous Campaign of Invasion. It resulted in the signal defeat of his army with great loss, and caused his immediate withdrawal from Pennsylvania and Upper Maryland, and ended his campaign in failure and disaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.