What if?... Response

If the South had won the Battle of Gettysburg, I doubt it would have made much of a difference in who won the  Civil War. If the South didn't give much resistance to the North and ended the war quickly, the North would win, and if the South held up and extended the war, the North would still win because of their long term advantages. Of course, the South couldn't technically beat the North quickly because the fighting was happening in their own territory. The Battle of Gettysburg was just a signal that the inevitable second phase of the war had begun. If the South were victorious in that particular battle, it wouldn't matter much because the South had been winning the whole time. Why would that battle out of all the others convince foreign nations to help the Confederacy or Lincoln to accept defeat? The "signaling battle" for the South to go into retreat mode would just happen later on.