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Grant victory at Vicksburg made the Mississippi a Union possession, cutting the Confederacy in two, completing phase two of the Anaconda Plan, choking the armies off from reinforcement and supplies, and, ultimately, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea: the event that really forced the end of the war.

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