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The more strategically important bottleneck in the West, at the time, was Chattanooga. Grant took over command at Chattanooga, and once he won the Battle of Lookout Mountain, it opened up the way for Sherman to march on Atlanta, a much more strategically important move than merely raiding the immediate vicinity around Vicksburg.

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