Ok here is the "big" question folks.get out your history books, what was the turning point of the civil war?

It is definitely in early July, 1663. In the East, Lee's Army of Virginia was turned back at Gettysburg and in the West Grant had captured Vicksburg, opening up the Mississippi to the Union and separating the trans-Mississippi states from the Confederacy. After these two battles, the Rebels never conducted a major offensive action.

1 The traditional turning point was at Gettysburg and that's a good a point as any. It was the point when it became obvious that the North's superiority in supply and numbers of troops would be sufficient to overcome whatever advantages the South had in terms of internal lines of communication and quality of military units. Gettysburg, and Antietam before it, demonstrated that the Southern forces had a major problem in pitched battles against Union forces of roughly equal or greater force.

Lee knew that and took risks against a larger number of union troops because he knew his boys would do anything for him. He also had very able officers under his command, many of them graduates of West Point, and the North was losing the war the first two years. However, Lee lost most of his army at Gettysburg in a foolish but brave attempt to take the offensive and end the war with Pickett's Charge.

He was never able to recover his losses. Also, as Sherman marched through Atlanta to the sea, he devastated the countryside and the civilian population's ability to feed the Southern army. They were running out of food and clothing and, by the time Lee surrendered at Appomattox in 1865, many soldiers were barefoot and starving.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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