The Turning Point 1863

Seige of Vicksburg and Capture of Mississpii

  • VIcksburg surrenders to Grant
    • Key to the Mississippi
  • City laid seige to for weeks before surrender

Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania

  • Confederacy is in the north and they might be able to go further but they can’t
  • 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