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War is usually complicated.

Take the Battle of New Market Heights. It was fought at six different fronts in Virginia almost simultaneously on September 29, 1864.

The goal of the Union soldiers who initiated the battle was mainly to draw Confederate troops away

from Petersburg, Virginia, so that Ulysses S. Grant could initiate what became the Siege

of Petersburg.

The goal of the Siege of Petersburg, in turn, was to cut off railroad supply lines to Richmond,

the capital of the Confederacy,

which, at some point perhaps, the Union could siege to end the Civil War.

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