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The Civil War is best remembered for a series of large-scale, attritional battles that were fought in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee. Although our attention is inevitably attracted to the conflict in the northeast, a number of important engagements unfolded along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and along the Mississippi River. From Pensacola Bay, Florida where the first shot of the conflict was fired on January 8, 1861, to Mobile Bay, Alabama where a dramatic naval and land campaign that began during the summer of 1864 eventually ended with the war's last major battle on April 9, 1865. The opposing sides skirmished over the Mississippi Gulf Coast throughout the conflict, just as they did over control of the Mississippi River. At New Orleans, Port Hudson, and then climatically at Vicksburg, some of the war's most critical battles were fought, and the fate of the Confederacy was sealed.
