Not destroyed, but hurt bad.The Confederate Strategy is toast. One of the main purposes for Gettysburg was to distract Grant from Vicksburg. While Pittsburgh, Washington, and Philadelphia may be at risk, the main strategic goal of the campaign has failed.
You also need to define a Gettysburg loss. Is the Army of the Potomac destroyed? If not, I can see a Confederate retreat by the end of the year by a shear lack of supplies.
Not destroyed, but hurt bad.
How bad is hurt bad, and just as relevantly, how bad is the ANV itself hurt?
1 to 10 for Union. 6 or 7, ANV, 5.
The Gettysburg Campaign ends. The Army of Northern Virginia can't sustain that kind of Pyrrhic victory, especially outside their own borders.
Nothing would change in the grand scheme, save a little domestic unrest in the North.
So basically Gettysburg as Antietam ver 2.0, the CSA has maybe 10,000 more men for the 1864 campaign season, not enough to change the stalemate in Virginia or to half the federal advance into the deep south.How about 2,3, or 4 for ANV?
So basically Gettysburg as Antietam ver 2.0, the CSA has maybe 10,000 more men for the 1864 campaign season, not enough to change the stalemate in Virginia or to half the federal advance into the deep south.
Ten thousand men in the East would not be a small something, though. That's half a corps.