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Answer Gettysburg was General Lee's second attempt to carry the war into the Northern states and it failed. Prior to this, Lee's Confederate army was always on the move. After Gettysburg, the fighting in Virginia developed into a siege warfare that resembled the trench warfare of World War 1. Also the battles in the West were not going well, either. The Union army had obtained most of their major objectives and began their advance onto Atlanta---the largest industrial Southern city outside of Virginia. The South was fighting a purely defensive war.

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