Gettysburg-"Turning point"of the Civil War?

[Wild Bill]

I leave this debate with the poignant words Michael Shaara, author of Killer Angels, put in the mouth of Col Joshua Chamberlain of the 20th Me Inf as he tried to talk the men left over from the 2d Me Inf into serving out their enlistments after the rest of their regiment had gone home. "I think if we lose this fight [Gettysburg] the war will be over." Psychologically, Lee WAS King of the Battlefield. Vicksburg could be taken anytime. Gettysburg was Now.