In the popular mind, and to battle-minded historians, it is. To strategic-minded historians, it is not. Grant's seizure of Vicksburg at the same time is the strategic turning point, closing the Mississippi to southern traffic, preventing reinforcements and supplies from getting to the armies further east. Gettysburg did shift the initiative from the South to the North in the East.
The Battle of Gettysburg.
The battle of Saratoga.
It is really the Siege of Vicksburg.
The actual turning point was the fall of Vicksburg at around the same time.
The Battle of Gettysburg 1st to 3rd July 1863 was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and was described as a turning point for the Civil War. With that said, most historians now have retracked the idea that Gettysburg was a significant turning point.
The July Battle was the turning point of Gettysburg war?
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The War's Turning Point
The Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg was considered to be the turning point.
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why was the battle of gettysburg a turning point?
its when the war ended