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Following the lack of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and accomplice eyes grew to become to the Yazoo River, which shaped the constructing northern flank for the South’s fort at Vicksburg, Mississippi. for a lot of the subsequent 12 months, Federal efforts to trap the fortress interested in ownership of that move.

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