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Before March of 1864, when Union General US Grant became the Union's Lieutenant General, his plans for early 1864 were tempered by the intervention of Washington DC. Grant made ambitious plans for a 1864 set of coastal raids into the Confederacy. The army he intended to use to attack Mobile, Alabama, and then march up the Alabama River were not to be. Instead the troops were used on the Red River campaign in Arkansas. Union armies were defeated in that campaign, a set back for sure.Then, once again back in Washington DC, President Lincoln and General in Chief Henry W. Halleck vetoed Grant's proposal to land troops on the coast of North Carolina. Grant planned to then cut Southern rail lines that ran north to south.
The idea was great, however, the planned amount of troops to conduct this raid was 60,000. These troops were unavailable and Washington DC could not take the risk of attempting the raid with not enough troops.
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