Gettysburg: The Decisive Battle of the Civil War

Gettysburg: The Decisive Battle of the Civil War The battle of Gettysburg was an extremely important battle of the Civil War. Gettysburg was the decisive battle of the Civil War because the South lost an irreplaceable amount of troops and officers; it caused the European powers not to intervene in the war; it created dissension among the officers of the Confederacy; it strengthened the Northern population's will to continue the war, while it hurt the …

…the decisive battle of the Civil War. The Confederacy was winning the war, but after Gettysburg its fortune took a dramatic turn. The Confederate army was devastated, Lee lost confidence in his generals, the European powers refused to aid the South, the Northern population started to support the war, while the Southern population started to oppose the war. If the Union army had lost at Gettysburg, the Confederacy most probably would have won the war.