"… it is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated to the cause that those who struggled here have thus far so nobly advanced.…"
You have mixed two event: the Battle of Gettysburg, and Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
Gettysburg was considered to be the turning point.
The July Battle was the turning point of Gettysburg war?
The point of the Gettysburg address was to honor the soldiers fighting there and to encourage them too!!
Gettysburg destroyed Lee's ability to carry out an offensive in the North.
The War's Turning Point
The Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg
Yes
The actual turning point was the fall of Vicksburg at around the same time.
There was no room for dreaming anywhere near the city of Gettysburg. That was a battle that is considered the turning point of the war, in the favor of the union, and there were no room for dreams, only attempts at survival.
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.