Low ridges to the northwest of town were defended initially by a Union cavalry division under Brig. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved of command just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.Įlements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it. Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj.
With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's attempt to invade the North.Īfter his success at Chancellorsville in Virginia in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North-the Gettysburg Campaign. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. T he Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Enhanced with a future TC3 plugin, VBS3 soon will allow for realistic casualty treatment by first responders, which creates the drive for squad coordination and reinforces individual skills for effective casualty management.Note: Much of the narrative below is sourced via Wikipedia A day of classroom training is followed by a day with video game scenarios in which Soldiers are immersed as avatars in the Army's flagship gaming program, Virtual Battlespace 3, or VBS3, to conduct missions. Today's combat medic (68W) training uses similar devices in training and validation at the Army Medical Simulation Training Centers, but there are not enough training devices to reach every Soldier. Besides teaching the correct way to apply a tourniquet, the training device helps Soldiers learn how to properly treat other preventable causes of battlefield death by placing a chest decompression needle and opening an airway with a nasal tube. 'And that's exactly what a Soldier has to do on the battlefield, move past the horror, search for the bleeding and treat it,' he said. They learn to apply tourniquets until the device's simulated bleeding stops. Their realism helps Soldiers get past the visual shock of war trauma to assess and identify life-threatening bleeding.
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