Why Is Gettysburg A Turning Point

Three years have passed so far in this bloody four year Civil war. The Confederate armies were winning the war against the Union. It was looking good for the Confederate until the battle of Gettysburg. This war was the turning point that would lead to a Union victory. I believe this because of the large abundance of Confederate men that were either missing, wounded, or dead, the momentum given to the Union, and that this is the key victory that stopped the invasion of the south from spreading into the north. My first reason for why the battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil war is the amount of Confederate that was injured, missing, or dead. Close to a third of the Confederate army died in this battle. The Union lost about