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The Confederates wanted to keep command of the rail junction at Corinth, and two Union armies were about to combine and come down on them.

But the Union commander Grant had told his men to rest easy at Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee river, not knowing there were any Confederates in the area.

The Confederates discovered this, and launched a big assault that nearly succeeded in pushing Grant's whole army into the river.

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