The U.S. Army has created an excellent website related to the Battle of Gettysburg.

When you click the Launch Battle button it takes you to a multimedia presentation of the events leading up the to battle. In addition to the spoken narrative, there are also numerous pictures of the famous Civil War era individuals, maps, and other primary sources. The introduction then leads into a timeline for each of the days of the battle mixing an multimedia map with text and photographs.

At the bottom portion of the screen, you have the option to select different specific information related to the battle. They are Profiles, Weaponry, Statistics, Epilogue, and Resources and each contains a wealth of information.

For example, if you click on Profiles, it provides you with an Overview and then you can click on any of the photos of the individuals at the bottom of the page such as John Burns, Jenny Wade or Confederate Private Wesley Culp who died on his family’s farm on Culp’s Hill. After reading the stories, have your students imagine that they lived in Gettysburg when the Confederates arrived or produce a newspaper article about the invasion.

The Statistics section can easily be integrated into a math lesson to compare and contrast the number of soldiers killed and wounded from different wars. While the Epilogue section contains some great information about the aftermath of the battle.