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Why was New Orleans so important during the Civil War

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A.) it was the last confederate fort on the Mississippi River.

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It was the port that controlled access to the Mississipi river which the confedrates used as there supply line. so if the union captured New Orleans the confederate would be cut off from there supplies making fighting the war much harder
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