karen river, esmeralda river, and lupitas river
Invasion of the confederacy and destroy its resistance. To get the strategically located border states to be loyal to them. To control the naval coast of 3500 miles of the coastline confederate. To prevent the big forces like Britain and France from assisting the confederacy.
Control of the seas was strategically important in the waging of war where one could control logistical supply routes and project , or prevent the projection of , military forces onto the land .
The Union prevented the Confederacy from taking control of the West.
As a sign that they did not recognise the Confederacy.
Chattanooga
In the US Civil War it was the Port of New Orleans so that they could end commerce on the Mississippi River and effectively divide the Confederacy.
You add control accounts at strategically placed control points.
Interstate Commerce
To gain control of the Mississippi River and defeat the Confederacy
nothing. Lincoln had no control over the confederacy. the proclamation ended slavery in the north but their were no slaves up there.
ANSWER The city was the most large city of the Confederacy. By its capture the Union sized the control of the Lower Mississippi, that, in addition to the progress made on the upper course of the river, was an important step forward to gain the whole control of the river and split in to two parts the Confederacy.
(Charleston Harbor)