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Mississippi Valley Campaign, the campaigns and battles of the American Civil War that were fought for control of the Mississippi River. Western waterways were major arteries of communication and commerce for the South, as well as a vital link to the Confederate states of Louisiana and Texas. Early in the war, Union strategists settled on the Mississippi and tributary rivers such as the Cumberland and Tennessee as proper avenues of attack. In addition to the...

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