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There are many answers to this question but perhaps the most logical answer is that it ended the ability of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgina to sustain offensive actions. From Gettysburg until the end of the war, Lee's army operated primarily from a defensive rather that offensive posture. Lee's army could not exist in the field and sustain casualties of the magnitude inflicted upon it at Gettysburg. Soon after Gettysburg, and as a result of his failure to follow the Confederate retreat, the Federal commander George Gordon Meade was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant. To be sure, Grant made many mistakes, but his style was to fight not finesse. There are many answers to this question but perhaps the most logical answer is that it ended the ability of the Confederate Army of Northern Virgina to sustain offensive actions. From Gettysburg until the end of the war, Lee's army operated primarily from a defensive rather than an offensive posture. Lee's army could not exist in the field and sustain casualties of the magnitude inflicted upon it at Gettysburg. Soon after Gettysburg, and as a result of his failure to follow the Confederate retreat, the Federal commander George Gordon Meade was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant. To be sure, Grant made many mistakes, but his style was to fight not finesse.

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It destroyed the myth of Lee's invincibility. He never again invaded the North. It shifted the strategic initiative away from the South and put them on the defensive for the rest of the war, leaving attrition as their only course of action.

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The North's victory at Gettysburg was considered the turning point of the Civil War. After Gettysburg, the South's victories waned.

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it was an important victory because the north killed many southerners in the battle

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