Gettysburg also witnessed a great number of generals killed in the battle

Gettysburg also witnessed a great number of generals killed in the battle. During the battle at Gettysburg, 11 generals were killed or gravely wounded. During the retreat following the engagement, the Confederacy lost generals Paul Jones Semmes, William Barksdale, William Dorsey Pender, Richard Garnett, and Lewis Armistead, as well as J. Johnston Pettigrew. Generals John Reynolds, Samuel K. Zook, Stephen H. Weed, and Elon J. Farnsworth were killed, as was Strong Vincent, who was promoted to brigadier general on his deathbed. Union Generals Dan Sickles who lost a leg, Francis C. Barlow, Daniel Butterfield, and Winfield Scott Hancock were among the other top officers wounded.

Major General John Bell Hood of the Confederacy lost the use of his left arm, while Major General Henry Heth was wounded in the head on the first day of battle though incapacitated for the rest of the battle, he remarkably survived, credited in part due to his hat stuffed full of paper dispatches. Generals James L. Kemper and Isaac R. Trimble of the Confederacy were seriously wounded during Pickett's charge and captured following the Confederate retreat. General James J. Archer, in command of a brigade that was most certainly responsible for Reynolds' death, was captured shortly after Reynolds' death.