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The Civil War was the most important event in American history.

That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be

and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.

And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.

Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast. Welcome back to our series on the most important battles in the Civil War.

Things are going very poorly for the Union, the last we left off, especially with

Chancellorsville, the Union disaster. It has been defeat after defeat.

Well, we've looked mostly at the Eastern Theater, but we haven't looked at the West.

And also, because we're looking at the major conflicts, there are many other smaller battles that sometimes we gloss over or we can't say too much about, even though in the wider scope of the war, they are critically important.

So what we're going to do is in this episode, first we'll look at what is happening in the West.

Then we're going to look at the Siege of Vicksburg, or more broadly the Vicksburg campaign, which is a very critical moment in the Civil War.

So let's start out with the West.

So, James, what's happening out there when at the same time that everything's happening out in the east that we've already discussed?

All right. So we're going to go back to 1862. We left off in the east. We kind of pushed pause, as you said, after Chancellorsville, which was in May of 1863.

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