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Though many historians see Gettysburg as the turning point, more recent scholarship sees Grant's seizure of Vicksburg, closing the Mississippi, as the actual strategic turning point, though less dramatic, and less costly in lives, and there was no Vicksburg Address to commemorate it.

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Q: Which Civil War battle decisively turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union?
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