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Why was New Orleans so important during the Civil War?

It was the last Confederate fort on the Mississippi River.
It was a key port for the Confederacy.
It was considered the capital of the Confederacy.
It was where all Confederate military planning occurred.

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It was the key port of the Confederacy
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