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Fortinbras Armstrong

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4. What really saved Lincoln was the victory at Gettysburg

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Mon Nov 30, 2020, 08:50 AM

Nov 2020

In the first three days of July 1864, followed immediately by the taking of Vicksburg the next day. Two resounding and significant Union victories within the same week. The significance of Vicksburg was, of course, that the Union had control of the entire length of the Mississippi River, which both simplified transport and cut off Texas and Arkansas (and the Confederate forces in Missouri) from the rest of the Confederacy.

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