In search of a decisive victory for the South, General Robert E. Lee focused on the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in late June of 1863. Devil’s Den, a known picnicking and trysting spot, saw vicious fighting over the course of the battle as sharpshooters and snipers fired from the nooks and crannies around large stones, upon which they bestowed nicknames such as Table, Breadloaf, and Bathtub. In what would be the bloodiest battle of the war, Lee lost 40 percent of his army, 28,000 men; Meade lost 25 percent, 23,000. Though a disheartening defeat, the Confederates achieved a deep advance into Union territory in an hour-long attack during which Gen. George Pickett’s, Gen. Johnston Pettigrew’s, and Gen. Isaac Trimble’s divisions lost two-thirds of their men.