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It destroyed the power of Lee's army to conduct offensive campaigns; it proved the Union army was not the equal of the Confederates, and it increased the morale of the Union forces. However, the true turning point occurred on the same day when Grant took Vicksburg, closing the Mississippi to the South, and tightening the stranglehold of the blockade in light of the Anaconda Plan.

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