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It marked the failure of Lee's plan to invade the North, and he was never able to try it again. For the rest of the war, he would be kept on the defensive.

The Union had the chance to destroy Lee's army, which would have ended the Civil War in one day (though they didn't exploit it.)

Lee's campaign failed to worry Lincoln enough to make him divert troops from the Mississippi campaign to come East to help. Vicksburg fell the same day. The war in the West was over.

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