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{| |- | The Union cut them off by taking control of the Mississippi River. The last city to fall was Vickburg. The battle took many days before the city fell. The Brown Water Navy consisted of gunboats and iron clads that fought in the fresh water of the Mississippi, Missouri and numerous other rivers that connected the Southern states. |}

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