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northern resources, and northern cities,
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but it of course resulted in Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation,
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which transformed the purpose of the war on both sides;
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back to that in a second.
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The second major turning point in the war,
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militarily, I'd argue, as most people do, was
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the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863
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and the day after the three days' battle at Gettysburg.
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The bloodiest encounter of the entire war,
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if you add up the three days' casualties of
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almost 56,000 dead and wounded,
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in three days--that battle, of course, stopped