Do not forget about Vicksburg. It was just as important as Gettysburg.
Beat me to it.
Taking Vicksburg was more of a turning point than Gettysburg IMO.
Grant and Sherman unleashed and coming east for the big sweep.
Indeed it was. It split the Confederacy in two geographically and gave the North control of the Mississippi River. Folks in Vicksburg were so pissed off about that for some eighty years after the war they didn’t celebrate The Fourth Of July.