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These union troops had left Brownsville to take part in the Red River Campaign union leaders wanted to invade Northeastern Texas from Louisanna along the Red River.
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It was vital to the confederacy. Magruders men converted to steamboats to gunboats. It left in union control, northernforces could easily sweep into texas
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Union army marched south to capture richmond. Confederate forces stopped the advance at their fisrt battle: Battle of Bull Run.
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It blockaded Texas ports by the summer of 1862.
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Union troops met part of sibley's force in this battle union forces kept control of the southwest for the rest of the war.
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This battle could have been a huge victory for the confederacy.However, with its loss and the immense loss of human life on both sides leaders began to realize that the civil war wouldnt quickly end.
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It gave president Lincoln the victory he needed to deliver the emancipation proclimation.Also it was the single bloodiest day in American history.
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Victory in the battle of Vicksburg gave control of the Mississippi river to the union.Mississippi was the place where they mostly transported goods.
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It was the turning point in the war. It was the furthest north the confederacy from moving moving onto Philadelphia or New York or going back south to Washington DC.
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this union did not intend to leave Galveston in confederate hands.
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The us troops of Texas took control of Civil War. When Union General Gordan Granger landed at Galveston in 1865 , he issued a Proclamation freeing Texas slaves.
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Over the next several months eleven southern states formed the confederate.
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Words of Lee's surrender reached confederate troops in Brownsville area by May 1865. Hundreds of soldiers left their posts from home.