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The Union Army realized that the Mississippi River was a major supply line for the Confederacy. In 1861 Fort Defiance was constructed at the confluence to thwart Confederate invasion and blockade the trade of the South. From here was launched General Grant’s great flanking movement up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, which began at Fort Henry and ended at Vicksburg, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi.

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