[Im Your Huckleberry]

"Vicksburg not Gettysburg, was the crisis of the Confederacy."

- J.F.C. Fuller, Military Historian

Gettysburg for all its bloodshed, was spectacle. Vicksburg was the decisive campaign of the war.

Anyway, "BUMP" for the Union...

[jnarcus]

Or the more typical viewpoint that Antietam round two was

[carlo3b]

Gettysburg for all its bloodshed, was spectacle. Vicksburg was the decisive campaign of the war.

Quite an understatement, but perhaps you have a point, however, that cannot reduce the impact this battle had on the conscience of our nation, or the measure of the resolve it instilled in the Union cause.