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The union victory at this battle gave them control of the Mississippi River

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A victory at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863 gave the union control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War. Following the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, General Ulysses S. Grants Union army moved south
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