The Mississippi River was the essential course for the Confederacy when bringing goods, commerce, and transportation.
With the "Anaconda Plan" General Scott proposed an arrangement to get a bar of southern ports and caught the Mississippi River cutting the south into two. By 1862 the endeavors to catch the Mississippi River began and as arranged the south was in the long run partitioned, being the Union powers the ones winning the American Civil War.
It divided the souths territory in half thus crushing its economy when the union got the Mississippi river it was one of the key turning points in the war.
