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The battle of Vicksburg
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The victories boosted Lincoln's popularity, helping him win reelection.
The victories boosted Lincoln's popularity, helping him win reelection.
Early victories in the West meant that the South was not able to coordinate its forces or to send reinforcements to Lee in the East, or to concentrate all the Confederate forces against one objective in either theater of operations.
The union recieved trading ports after their victory at New Orleans.
Grant's victories in the West meant that Lee could be isolated to Northern Virgina and worn down without other armies coming to his relief. When he became the overall commander, his victories led to Lee's surrender.
Basically everything south of Virginia (West Virginia was in the Union) and East of the Mississppi River
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The two most important Union victories were not battles as such, but sieges. When Grant captured Vicksburg, it choked off the South from Mississippi River traffic. They could not receive reinforcements or supplies from Texas and Arkansas. When Sherman captured Atlanta and conducted his March to the Sea, that prevented food, ammunition, clothing, and medicine from reaching the Army of Northern Virginia from the Deep South. From then on, the fate of the South was sealed.