Gettysburg lose, Vicksburg, victory

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.
 
Even a loss at Gettysburg won't get the Confederates to Philadelphia (too far) or Washington (too well defended). You may get some serious panic amongst politicians, but unless the Army of the Potomac is completely wrecked (and don't see how that happens at Gettysburg minus ASBs) the CSA gains a little time...maybe.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.

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.

The deep south is beyond the scope of what the ANV can do, barring interfering with those campaigns being launched by diverting federal troops to the east.

Ten thousand men in the East would not be a small something, though. That's half a corps.
 

Anaxagoras

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Ten thousand men in the East would not be a small something, though. That's half a corps.

The Battle of the Wilderness would have likely gone very differently had Lee had 70,000 men instead of 60,000. I'm ignoring butterflies, of course, but still...
 
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