What battle was turning the point of the civil war?
The following year Lee had another opportunity to invade the North that culminated in the battle of Gettysburg and another strategic (and tactical) loss. Many consider this to be the turning point in the war, but by this time the Confederacy had lost control of the Mississippi River Valley, and had no answers for the Northern efforts in what was called the “West”. Even if Lee had not met with defeat at Gettysburg, it is doubtful that, with President Lincoln’s unfailing determination to keep the Union together, that anything he could have done would have reversed the critical effort in the West.
