From the April 27th St. George (Utah) Daily Spectrum.
Hundreds of battles and skirmishes were fought during the war for control of transportation hubs, river crossings, railroad junctions, seaports and even high ground.
Other battles took place simply because great armies collided like at Gettysburg.
The one hundred mile stretch of land between Washington, DC and Richmond was particularly heavily contested. Eventually the fighting here looped around to the south of Richmond at Petersburg, Virginia.
Then, there was General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan" designed to keep the pressure on the Confederacy by capturing major ports and Southern rivers. "Fort by fort, mile by mile, Confederate supply lines rolled up" as the Union gained control of the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
It's a Geographical Thing. --Old B-Runner
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