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While both sides needed trains, the Union alone had the knowledge and equipment necessary to build them.
While both sides needed trains, the Union alone had the knowledge and equipment necessary to build them.
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S2, EP29 "The Battle/Siege of Vicksburg"The battle for the strategic city of Vicksburg, Miss., included heavy bombardment and Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's plan to starve the city into surrendering.
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S2, EP14 "The Battle of Franklin & Nashville"The Union army defeated the Confederates in the 1864 battles at Franklin and Nashville as spectators watched.
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S2, EP6 "The Battle of Fredericksburg"The Confederate army undermines the Union soldiers at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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