The Union's Victory At Vicksburg, Mississippi was important because Lincoln needed a victory to announce the emancipation proclamation so that it would look like a treat and not a last resort. ( If this victory hadn't occurred then the South would have thought that the North was too bad off and was so desperate that

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At first when Lincoln announced the Emancipation proclamation he said that only the slaves of the Rebel states were to be set free.(this was a war tactic. The border states still had slaves and they were crucial for the defeat of the North.). Up until this point the main goal of the war was to … Read more