Gettysburg GIS

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I read that one soon after it went online and quite liked it. The monuments at Gettysburg certainly lend the sense that the participants in the battle fought knowing that those three days were going to be when the war was decided. But my understanding is that it was only retrospect that the battle came to be understood that way.

I would argue the war was not decided on that day. Yes, if the Union had lost the war would have changed considerably, but the CSA loss did not have as great an impact as Vicksburg.

For that matter, I would contend the war was "won" between the Appalachian MTS and the Mississippi.