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The Attack on Fort Sumter impacted the civil war because it formally started the civil war. -
Union triumph. The Confederacy's ambitions of halting the Union push into Mississippi were dashed by the South's failure at Shiloh, and the Confederate military effort in the West was also lost. Confederate spirit deteriorated after Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, their commander, was killed in action. The victory was important to the civil war because it allowed Grant to begin a massive operation in the Mississippi Valley later that year. -
1862, specified that all slaves owned by men who favored the Confederacy should be treated as free. Was issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country was near its third year of a violent civil war. The proclamation stated that "that all persons held as slaves" in the opposing states " henceforward shall be free". This is important to the civil war because for African American this backed their stance that the fight for the Union needed to evolve into a fight for independence. -
One of the Civil War's longest and most successful campaigns the Union participated in was the Battle of Vicksburg. The Union's successful Anaconda Plan included a 47-day siege of Vicksburg in order to break all commercial relations with the Confederacy. This maneuver finally handed the Union control of the Mississippi River, a crucial supply route. -
The Battle of Gettysburg began on July 1, after a confrontation between the Union and the Confederate troops. Meade had more soldiers and a superior defensive position in the ensuing battle. He prevailed in the conflict but abandoned Lee as he fled back to Virginia. The battle was the Confederacy's military pinnacle. The Campaign is important to the civil war because it prevented the Confederate offense in the Eastern Theater, and ended any hope of intervention from Europe.