the anaconda plan
Vicksburg
With the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, the Federals gained full control of the Mississippi River and thus cut the Western Confederacy (Trans Mississippi District) off from the eastern two thirds of the Confederacy. Control of the Mississippi was vital to the Union's Anaconda Plan which was intended to strangle the Confederate supply lines both foreign and domestic.
No, the Mississippi River. and the confederacy in half
It was Gen Ulysses S. Grant's July 1863 victory at the Battle of Vicksburg that cut the Confederacy in half. Vicksburg, Mississippi was the only remaining Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, so Grant's victory gave the Union control of the lower Mississippi River, along with splitting the South in two by cutting Richmond off from the Western half of the Confederacy
The Mississippi - a key highway for troops and supplies. It also meant that all Confederate units West of the river were cut off.
To gain control of the Mississippi River and defeat the Confederacy
The Siege and Capture of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two.
The battle of Vicksburg.
Anaconda plan
The splitting of the Confederacy into two parts.
Anaconda Plan
They took control of the Mississippi River
The Mississippi river and something else
Vicksburg
The Cumberland. The Tennessee. The Mississippi.
It allowed the union to take control of the Mississippi River.
the Mississippi