USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865

CIVIL WAR TURNING POINTS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How did the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg?
A
The Union was able to avoid more casualties
B
The Union was able to hold the line and eventually win
C
The Confederacy surrendered immediately
D
The Confederacy had to take a defensive position
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: “The Confederacy surrendered immediately. “ the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg is that The Confederacy surrendered immediately.

Detailed explanation-2: -How did the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg? The Union was able to avoid more casualties. The Union was able to hold the line and eventually win.

Detailed explanation-3: -Morale can drive an army forward to victory, or drag it to defeat. The Battle of Gettysburg, a military turning point in the war, was also a crisis of motivation and initiative. The carnage lasted three days and as the casualty rate soared, the morale of the armies virtually reversed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Union infantry opened fire on the advancing rebels from behind stone walls while regiments from Vermont, New York and Ohio hit both of the enemy’s flanks. Caught from all sides, barely half of the Confederates survived, and Pickett’s division lost two-thirds of its men.

Detailed explanation-5: -Union victory. Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end. The loss there dashed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to become an independent nation.

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