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Date Posted: 16:46:39 11/13/02 Wed
Author: j
Subject: Ch14 - The Western Theater

I. The Western Theater
A. New Orleans Captured
i. on april 25, 1862, the union captured New Orleans from the south
a. N.O. was the major trading and banking port of the south, it was now in northern hands
B. Fort Henry and Fort Donnelson
i. captured by Ulysses S. Grant
a. Grant and the north now had control of the confederate center
b. eventually, grant forced confederate forces out of Kentucky and half of Tennessee
C. Shiloh
i. april 6-7, 1862
a. confederate general Beauregard and Albert Sydney Johnston caught Grant by surpirise as he moved his troops nearby Shiloh, Tennessee
b. Johnston killed on first day and Grant pushed back
c. second day, 25,000 new union troops arrive and force Beauregard to surrender
d. northern forces occupied Corinth, Mississippi, a major railroad hub, and controlled the Mississippi as far south as Memphis, Tennessee
D. Stone River (Battle of Murfreesboro)
i. dec 31 – jan 2
a. condeferate officer Braxton Bragg attemted to regain the state for the south at Chattanooga, tenn
b. union officers Don Carlos Buell and William S. Rosecrans were assigned to capture Chattanooga
c . in the end Bragg was forced to surrender
ii. the union was making major success in the west, but were suffering in the east

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