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It meant that it controlled the whole of the huge waterway that was the principal means of transport for men and supplies throughout Western Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

By denying the Confederates the use of this waterway, it seriously hobbled the Southern war effort, and isolated those units to the West of the river.

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