River capture is the diversion of some water or parts of a less powerful river into a more powerful river in the adjacent valley.
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The phenomena of river capture is often the birth of valleys. An important feature of a river capture is the elbow of capture. The capture can also result in an air gap, which is a waterless area between the elbow of capture and the lower course of the consequent.
Stream capture is when the upper portion of a river basin is diverted from one river basin to another by means of natural erosion.
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The Mississippi
The capture of Vicksburg would yield the North control of the entire course of the river and thus enable it to isolate those Confederate states that lay west of the river from those in the east.
After the capture of Vicksburg in July 1863.
It gave the Union control of the Tennessee River.
The Union gained control of the Mississippi river in the spring of 1862. The victory at Shiloh gave the North the advantage in the fight for control of the Mississippi River and the river valley.
The capture of New Orleans was a good start. It was actually the capture of Vicksburg that was the key moment - not a city, but a major river-port.