Turning point of the war, the southern invasion of the North retreats, they’re over-exposed – doomed to fail news of the Union capture of Vicksburg and the victory at Gettysburg came over the telegraph wire but the couldn’t print it because of the damned monopoly of the wire service to the California Paper that got first rights to publish. But Sam thought that if the town had known the Union was probably going to be saved, the people were be thrilled.