The battles of gettysburg and vicksburg proved to be turning points of the civil war. write an essay of 250 words giving the reasons why these battles were the turning point in the war.

Political point of view: The chances for Lincoln’s success to reelection in 1864 had been previously jeopardized during the campaign because the prolonged bloody war and poor performance in the battlefield, the popular disapproval raised (including here the Conscription Act in March 1863 for drafting in the army or “commutation fee”) and Copperheads (Peace Democrats) had denounced Lincoln as tyrant who was suppressing the right of the free trial and free speech to the opposition newspapers and people being hostile to the Union’s War and fondness to Confederate. Copperheads had many followers among farmers in the West and laborers and immigrants in the industrialized areas because the tax tariff raised by republicans and the racist fear that the emancipation would bring be competition to their job possibilities. The victory of Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, as well as the other events after them (like the capture of Atlanta in September 1864 under Gen. Sherman army – while Grant was the commander of all Union armies), in the advantage of the North and punishing the Confederate had boosted the moral of the North and gave Lincoln the victory, defeating the republican candidate McClellan (except for Kentucky, New Jersey, and Delaware)

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