DOWNLOAD TO WORK BETTER! The story of the largest military engagement on U.S. soil. The union has been losing the war, and the next battle will probably determine the winner. On July 1, 1863, General John Buford's federal cavalry engaged with General Henry Heth's Confederate infantry to start the battle. The entire union army came in to reinforce along with the confederates, and got the battle underway. this project mainly focuses on less popular areas a Gettysburg, like Barlow's Knoll, Lutheran Seminary, and Cemetery Hill, but you still get the whole effect.