Vicksburg.
Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg, fought from May 18 to July 4, 1863, effectively cut off communication with the South. The Union's victory led to the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, which was a strategic stronghold on the Mississippi River. This defeat for the Confederacy split their territory and disrupted supply lines, significantly impacting their ability to communicate and coordinate across the region.
Vicksburg. It liberated the Mississippi.
The river that the North needed to control to split the South was the Mississippi River. This river was a very important transportation system for the South so controlling the river meant controlling the South.
The Confederacy was successfully split in half by the union. The battle that gained complete control of the Mississippi River. :D
Vicksburg isolated the southern states west of the Mississippi from the states in the Deep South. It also allowed Federal forces to turn their attention to destroying the infrastructure of the South to hasten the end of the war.
Two extremely important Civil War battles were fought in July of 1863. One was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. That was the point when the Union Army showed that it had finally figured out the tactics it could use to defeat Lee. The other battle was in Vicksburg, Mississippi. General Grant captured Vicksburg and the North split the South in half. The part of the South west of the Mississippi could neither send men nor supplies to the armies east of the Mississippi. Also 40,000 irreplaceable Confederate troops surrendered.
the Mississippi
The Union planned to capture Mississippi. This would break the South in half and create more problems.
Vicksburg and the liberation of the Mississippi. With the great waterway in Union hands, Confederate units to the West of the river were cut off.
Vicksburg opened up the Mississippi river to the north and split the South, making it harder to ship supplies.
Virginia, it became West and East Virginia.