By the spring 1862, the Union forces took control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers as well as some vital southern railroads. ... The plan of capturing the Mississippi River was to capture New Orleans and they would call up Union force to join Grant's army advancing to North. ... The other battle was called the Seven Days Battle. ... In the spring of 1863, from the Mississippi River, General Grant marched east to Jackson. ... While Pope was distracted, Lee's came to Union's left side, which became a Second Battle of Bull Run. ...

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As time elapsed, laziness perfused through the people like a coursing river, corruption raged through the government with the force of a great typhoon, and the Visigoths subsequently overtook the Romans like a raging fire. ... The U.S government has meddled with governments in one part of the world and waged war in other parts of the world, and often in multiple places at the same time. ... On one side of the debate, there is a group of people who desire health care at a basic level (nothing is more American than that any person has the right to own a gun, but not to have basic health care in ...

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Working through Gorgas and other officials the South assigned ordnance contracts to privately owned factories like the Tredegar Iron works in Richmond, provided loans to establish new factories, and created government owned industries like the giant Augusta Powder Works in Georgia. ... Both sides relied heavily on war bonds, that is, to loans from citizens to be repaid by future generations. ... The democrats were able to gain support of farmers in the Ohio River Valley and members of the urban working class. ...

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When speaking of one, you are speaking about the other. ... Lincoln was the skipper of the Talisman, a Mississippi River Boat, and Kennedy was the skipper of PT 109. ... President Lincoln told his side in the Emancipation Proclamation and President Kennedy reported to Congress on Civil Rights. ...

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The great agitation of our once glorious Union fills the heart of every lover of liberty with gloom and dismay on the one hand, and determination and sacrifice, if needed, to retain that principle which inhabits every Southern heart--independence--on the other. ... In January, within days of each other, Mississippi seceded from the Union, with Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas following. ... Lee's loyalties proved to be on the side of the South because of his family tradition in and association with the state of Virginia. ... General Lee and other reasons are why I am proud t...

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