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In the popular mind, and to battle-minded historians, it is. To strategic-minded historians, it is not. Grant's seizure of Vicksburg at the same time is the strategic turning point, closing the Mississippi to southern traffic, preventing reinforcements and supplies from getting to the armies further east. Gettysburg did shift the initiative from the South to the North in the East.

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