History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2127 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Grant in the West
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The idea
Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the West operated in Kentucky, Tennessee and the Mississippi Valley, aiming to control the rivers rather than to take a capital.
In practice
Union control of the Mississippi promising to split the Confederacy in two.
Where people slip
This is a different theory of the war from the eastern one at entry 2122, and it is the theory that worked.
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