Gettysburg-"Turning point"of the Civil War?

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This time, I'm agreeing with Rob (don't faint). What was achieved with the siege and fall of Vicksburg was much more important to the Union, in my opinion. Even if the Confederate forces had advanced into the north after Gettysburg, they surely would have been stopped a short while later at some place in Pennsylvania. Meade's failure to immediately go after the retreating Rebs didn't help either. Obtaining control of the Mississippi River had been a prime object for both sides, and the Union took the victory.