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“[I]n a bigger sense, we can't dedicate—we can't consecrate—we can't hallow—this floor. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our capacity to add or detract.”—President Abraham LincolnJames M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer of Battle Cry of Freedom, and probably the best Civil War historian on the planet, walks us through the website of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans. The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective memory, because they offered to alter the course of the Civil War and with it the course of history.