What if......?

I believe that a win for the Confederacy at Gettysburg would have crushed the Union and most likely have led to the end of the war. Up to this point many of the wins had belonged to the Confederacy, and this lose would have given a blow that the Union would not have been able to sustain. The number of troops they would have lost is something they would not have been able to bounce back from. This was also crucial because it would have resulted in help from Britain and/or France With that kind of a backing the Union would have no choice but to back down. The only other option for them would be to wage war on 3 countries, which they were surely not prepared to do. Also, it would have led to the South beginning to attack the North and stop playing defense. This would have hurt the North more because all those people who were on the border about the war would have wanted it to stop. Now that their lives were in danger they would have decided this war was not one worth fighting. To feed off of this, the South would have kept moving troops north ultimately causing the North to have to surrender and give  up their throne as king of North America.