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AMERICAN HISTORY

SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1 EXAMINE THE MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF THE YEAR 1863 . IN WHAT WAYS WAS THIS A `TURNING POINT` IN THE WAR

The year 1863 was the turning point in the Civil War . Militarily , it contained three extremely important , decisive battles that would turn the tide of the war and be , in essence , the beginning of the end for the Confederacy . By this point in the war there were many issues that lent to the conditions that the Confederates found themselves in during the battles at Gettysburg , Vicksburg , and Chattanooga . Supplies

were running out , leaving many Confederate soldiers without even the most basic of necessities , and unlike the industrialized North that could manufacture their own supplies , the agrarian South was without the ability to restock their depleting army , both in terms of supplies and men . With the Northern population being 3 times that of the South , men to fight the war was also an issue . The military events that happened this year came at a time when the Confederate army was running out of everything

In July 1864 two events happened that were important militarily General George Meade , a Union officer , and the Union army defeated the Confederate Army , led by Robert E . Lee , at Gettysburg . This event was historic and set the stage for the end of the Civil War in more ways than one . One day later General Ulysses S . Grant took control of the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River , known as the Union victory at Vicksburg . These two events in conjunction were extremely important , but still another happened during this year that can be considered a turning point , when added to the other two Union military victories . In Chattanooga there were railroads that linked , on which supplies for the South were transported . When the Union was victorious at taking over this city and stopping the Confederate supplies from getting to them , it was , in essence , the end of the Civil War because they now didn 't have any way of re-supplying...

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