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HARDCOVER EDITION
By Joe DeSantis
What brought about the sudden Union victory at Gettysburg, the battle that many prominent scholars point to as the turning point of the Civil War? Could it have been something more than battlefield tactics? Could there have been something supernatural behind the victory? Discover the truth behind the most important battle in the Civil War.
HARDCOVER EDITION
By Joe DeSantis
By June of 1863, Northern morale and support for the Civil War effort was reaching a new low. One more stunning Rebel victory, this time on Union soil, could well have pushed the European powers of England and France to recognize the Confederate States of America as a sovereign nation, perhaps even marking their entrance into the war on behalf of the South. Lee was well aware of the stakes, so much so that he boldly pursued a second invasion of the North from Virginia, through Maryland, and into Pennsylvania. Specifically… Gettysburg.
The subsequent Union victory came at a price of 25,000 Rebel soldiers killed, wounded, captured, or missing in action.
In addition to losing a third of its strength, the Army of Northern Virginia was stripped of invaluable veteran field officers. The ongoing manpower drain experienced by the Confederacy as the war dragged on insured that it could never replenish the ranks of its most reliable army. As a result, Lee was essentially forced to fight the rest of the war on the defensive, while the Army of Northern Virginia dwindled to a mere 28,000 tattered and starving soldiers by the time they stacked their weapons at Appomattox in April of 1865. The war ended shortly thereafter.
What brought about the sudden Union victory at Gettysburg, the battle that many prominent scholars point to as the turning point of the Civil War? Could it have been something more than battlefield tactics? Could there have been something supernatural behind the victory? Discover the truth behind the most important battle in the Civil War.
