The Battle of Gettysburg destroyed one third of Lee's forces and marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North.
It showed the Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia was not unbeatable. It had lost the battle of Gettysburg and would never have the stregnth that it possessed before Gettysburg. So After Gettysburg. It was a slow and painful decline for the Confederacy
up till Gettysburg, the Union had lost most battles, lest the nickname "the turning point".
Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia.
All numbers in the Civil War are of necessity estimates, and exact precision will never be possible. That said, the best estimates are that Lee had 71,699 men in his army, and lost 4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, and 5,830 captured or missing, for a total of 23,231. Through the entire campaign, from the time Lee's army left Virginia until it returned, total losses were around 27,000. Some of those listed as wounded at Gettysburg would have died later in hospitals, and many of the missing were also dead.
At the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, the Confederate army suffered 28,000 casualties. This figure represents both wounded and killed soldiers.
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Interestingly the battle was over a shoe supply at Gettysburg. But this escalated into a chance for the CSA army of Northern Virginia to destroy the USA army of the Potomac and so the battle was fought. After about 4 days of fighting though the CSA, who were winning, decided to commit military suicide by the name of Pickett's Charge, so they lost the battle.
The Scots army lost to the English army in 1298. The British Government army lost to the Jacobite army in 1746.
The Battle of Gettysburg was a defeat for the Army of Northern Virginia. The Southern press, its people and leaders understood this and were sorely disappointed. The lost battle however, did not cause enough harm to keep Robert E. Lee from reorganizing his army and prepare for more battlefield action. On a logistical and military view, the South was not harmed enough to tilt the war in any particular manner.