The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

Union forces are eventually able to check the Confederate breakthrough and prevent complete envelopment. (Continued below map) However, Confederate forces now occupy all of the high ground in the ...

Confederate flanking fire from Culp's Hill, however, inflicts high Union casualties. (Continued below map). Union forces inflict over 3,000 casualties and fight heroically to hold the ground.