The Turning Point 1863
Seige of Vicksburg and Capture of Mississpii
- VIcksburg surrenders to Grant
- City laid seige to for weeks before surrender
Leeās invasion of Pennsylvania
- Confederacy is in the north and they might be able to go further but they canāt
- Battle of Gettysburg is the bloodiest battle of the war
- Located in a crossroads town and the Union wins
- Popular opinion turns in favor of war
- Lee flees the north
- Lincoln gives Gettysburg address at a ceremony for the soldiers killed in the battle