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This battle took place in Tennessee from April 6 - 7 1862. This was the first major battle in the Western Theatre of the Civil War and Union won.

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Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center, Pittsburg Landing Road, Shiloh, TN, USA

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Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center, Pittsburg Landing Road, Shiloh, TN, USA

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Shiloh Battlefield Visitor Center, Pittsburg Landing Road, Shiloh, TN, USA

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This battle gave Lincoln confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. This also discouraged the British and French governments from pursuing the plans to recognize the Confederacy.

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The Battle of Chancellorsville took place from April to May 1863. The Confederacy won led by Robert E, Lee. The General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was badly injured.

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This is where the First Urban Warfare took place of the Civil War. It took place in the streets and town of Fredericksburg. The Union won this battle.

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The Battle of Vicksburg gave power to the Union and they took control if the Mississippi River. The Union and Confederate armies both had heavy artillery during this fight from May 1863 to July 1863.

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Manassas is where the first battle of Bull Run took place and is also the first major land battle from the Civil War. In 1861, the Union and Confederate armies fought here.

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Harpers Ferry is most known for being used for as a slave revolt by John Brown. He used the town weapons to try to expand south into Virginia.

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Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, USA

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Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, USA

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Fort Sumter National Monument, South Carolina, USA

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The confederate forces used Fort Sumter as a defense from Charleston Harbor. It was in the Atlantic Ocean, and it created a blockade for the Union during the Civil War.

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The Battle of Appomattox Court House was fought on April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and led to Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

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Battle of Chattanooga, (November 23–25, 1863), in the American Civil War, a decisive engagement fought at Chattanooga on the Tennessee River in late November 1863, which contributed significantly to victory for the North. Chattanooga had strategic importance as a vital railroad junction for the Confederacy.

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Chickamauga was the largest Confederate victory in the Western theater. At the end of a summer that had seen the disastrous Confederate loss at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, the triumph of the Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga was a well-timed turn around for the Confederates.

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Washington, DC, was the most strategic and vulnerable city in the Union during the Civil War. ... Through its proximity to the front, Washington assumed the role of “grand depot of supplies” for the Eastern Theater. The war also flooded the capital with hundreds of thousands of sick and wounded soldiers.

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Savannah's role in the Civil War is legendary—it was one of the only towns left standing during Sherman's famous 'March to the Sea," preserved and given as a Christmas present to Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Explore how Savannah was a key city in the Confederacy—and what happened after the Union victory.

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Richmond, Virginia served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for almost the whole of the American Civil War. It was a vital source of weapons and supplies for the war effort, and the terminus of five railroads. The Union made many attempts to invade Richmond.

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Early in the Civil War, Union authorities identified the strategic importance of New Orleans. With its location at the mouth of the Mississippi River, New Orleans controlled access between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Baltimore was the site of the first blood spilled during the Civil War. Even before massed Union and Confederate armies met on the field of battle, the first casualties of the war occurred in Baltimore.

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The Battle of Gettysburg fought on July 1–3, 1863, was the turning point of the Civil War for one main reason: Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North and force an immediate end to the war failed.

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The Battle of Buffington Island was the largest Civil War engagement fought in the State of Ohio and in the East North Central states of the U.S. On July 8, 1863, Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate cavalry leader, led approximately 2,100 soldiers across the Ohio River into southern Indiana.

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Traced border between the Union and the Confederacy was the Potomac River. Lent it's name to the most important Union Army(The Army of Potomac).The river functioned majorly as it always had- as an avenue for transport throughout the war.

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Some believe that this river served possibly boundary between the North and South during the war. This area was a long area of occupation by indigenous people.

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Ranked near the Mississippi River in it's significance during the War, James River was used to be a way for boats to move materials such as pig iron and coal from Virginia's Valley and regions.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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The Chesapeake Bay was one of the most important bodies of water in America. It was also known as the Critical naval battle in the Chesapeake Bay and strategic French victory in the American Revolution.

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Montgomery was birthplace of the Confederacy and Alabama all together was central to the Civil War.

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Tennessee changed since the American War with huge armies constantly destroying it's rich farmland and every county witnessing combat.

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Kentucky wasdeclared it's neutrrality officially at the beginning of the war. And Lincoln recognized the importance in September 1861 when writing a letter which he wrote: I think to lose to Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

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The Mississippi River provided a convenient invasion route for Union forces in the Western states. Troops, Guns, and supplies were able to be moves by riverboats.