These are our most sacred principles, our foundational civil rights of having status in this country. In the military we were drilled on them constantly, our rights hold us together. The Bill of Rights.
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the deliberate modification of Earth’s surface through cultivation of plants and rearing of animals
It was a strategic point in the Tennessee River. The union wanted to gain control of the tributaries that flowed into the Mississippi River. Southern troops were not defending this place. It was a stronghold protecting the North.
