How did the Union secure a victory over the Confederacy?

1.) Union takes the Mississippi River.

2.) General Sherman's march through Georgia.

3.)Death of "Stone Wall" Jackson

4.)The Battle of Gettysburg.

5.)Lincoln found after firing sooo many generals that he finally found his man.

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