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the confederacy was split in two after it lost strongholds along the mississippi river.
It didn't split the Confederacy in two. It was a punitive raid of destruction that simply helped to destroy the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field. Splitting the Confederacy in two is what Grant (and Sherman) achieved earlier in the Siege of Vicksburg, which ended with the liberation of the Mississippi.
Two different countries.
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Battle of Vicksburg
The Mississippi river and something else
the confederacy was split in two after it lost strongholds along the mississippi river.
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Vicksburg
Vicksburg, because split the Confederacy in to two parts.
The seize of Vicksburg, because it gave to the Union full control over the Mississippi River and split into two parts the Confederacy.
It didn't split the Confederacy in two. It was a punitive raid of destruction that simply helped to destroy the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field. Splitting the Confederacy in two is what Grant (and Sherman) achieved earlier in the Siege of Vicksburg, which ended with the liberation of the Mississippi.
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The confederacy was split in two.
the confederacy was split in two after it lost its strongholds along the Mississippi river
Two different countries.