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Blockade runners used Nassau as a main port in the exchange of Confederate cotton for European war materials and scarce consumer goods.
It was crucial to the dominance of the Mississippi. Also, Eastern Tennessee was generally pro-Union, and Lincoln regarded Tennessee as a state that could be retrieved from the Confederacy. Western Tennessee was the scene of the first signficant battles - Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh - which brought U.S. Grant to prominence for the first time. Later the state would see three battles at Chattanooga, and then a long campagn by Sherman, whose orders were to destroy the Army of Tennessee under Joseph E. Johnston. That army was finally sent into headlong retreat, not by Sherman himself, buthi subordinateGeorge Thomas. It was the only time a Confederate army had been routed and fragmented in battle.
In the backcountry, people lived similar to the way that they do today. They hunt for their own food, play in the woods a lot, and live for their own.
In those days, children were not considered to be special the way they are today. If they were old enough to do a job, then they had to go out and do it to earn money. Today, children are cared for better, and they have until their late teens just to run around and play after school instead of having to go work in a factory.