The Northern strategy to divide the South into the upper and lower South was successful.
After the Union gained New Orleans, they could control the South of the Mississippi River
No. It was a siege which looked as though it would destroy the Army of the Cumberland, and would have allowed the Confederates a big move North. But Grant came East to relieve the Army of the Cumberland, and in the end, it was a Union victory.
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The North - a big factor in Union victory
It did not want to, according to Grant's strategy, which was simply to destroy the two armies under Johnston and Lee. But when this still hadn't happened, month after month, and Lincoln's credibility was about to be tested in the 1864 Election, the capture of Atlanta was seen as the kind of victory that would reassure the Northern public. It did just that, and Lincoln crucially won his second term.
Yes
After the Union gained New Orleans, they could control the South of the Mississippi River
The North.
It liberated the Mississippi and ended the war in the West.
Farragut's capture of New Orleans on April 25, 1862, after bypassing the forts defending the city and annihilating the weak Confederate river fleet.
AfterGrant's decisive victory at the Third Battle of Chattanooga opened to door to the invasion of Georgia and to the deep Union penetration into the core of the South. Last but not least, the vital railroad linking the Confederate western states east from Mississippi and those of the eastern front had been interrupted for the rest of the war.
No. It was a siege which looked as though it would destroy the Army of the Cumberland, and would have allowed the Confederates a big move North. But Grant came East to relieve the Army of the Cumberland, and in the end, it was a Union victory.
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He is in the Chattanooga TN . North GA Area.
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250 miles taking this route:Take I-85 SOUTH, from Charlotte, to I-75 NORTH to CHATTANOOGA, via I-285 WEST ATLANTA BYPASS (EXIT 95B off I-85 in GEORGIA to get onto I-285 WEST BYPASS to CHATTANOOGA ; EXIT 20 off I-285 to get onto I-75 NORTH to CHATTANOOGA).Take I-75 NORTH to Marietta.