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US President Lincoln often tried to guide the Union's military forces. He believed that an invasion of Texas would galvanize New England support for the war. If the Union could control Texas its vast supplies of cotton could be shipped to New England's textile mills. Lincoln appointed the governor of Massachusetts, Nathaniel P. Banks to raise an expeditionary force to assault Texas from the Gulf of Mexico. Later Lincoln changed the destination of Bank's forces to southern Mississippi. The reason was for the control of the Mississippi River.

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