Western Union armies

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Union army formation military organization

The Western Union armies were the principal Union military forces operating in the western theater of the American Civil War, conducting major campaigns along the Mississippi River and into the Confederate heartland.

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Label	Occurrences
Western Union armies canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Union army formation ⓘ military organization ⓘ
allegiance	Union ⓘ
campaignFocus	Siege of Vicksburg ⓘ surface form: Mississippi River campaigns operations into the Confederate interior ⓘ
conflict	American Civil War ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
engagedIn	Atlanta Campaign ⓘ surface form: Atlanta campaign Chattanooga Campaign ⓘ surface form: Chattanooga campaign Fort Donelson campaign ⓘ Nashville Campaign ⓘ surface form: Nashville campaign Sherman’s March to the Sea ⓘ Battle of Shiloh ⓘ surface form: Shiloh campaign Siege of Vicksburg ⓘ surface form: Vicksburg campaign
includedFormation	Army of the Cumberland ⓘ Army of the Mississippi ⓘ Army of the Ohio ⓘ Army of the Tennessee ⓘ Army of the Tennessee ⓘ surface form: Army of the Tennessee (Union)
notableBattle	Battle of Atlanta ⓘ Battle of Chattanooga ⓘ Battle of Shiloh ⓘ Siege of Vicksburg ⓘ
notableCommander	Don Carlos Buell ⓘ George H. Thomas ⓘ Henry W. Halleck ⓘ John Pope ⓘ Ulysses S. Grant ⓘ William Tecumseh Sherman ⓘ
operatedIn	Alabama ⓘ Arkansas ⓘ Georgia ⓘ Louisiana ⓘ Mississippi River ⓘ surface form: Mississippi Mississippi River valley ⓘ surface form: Mississippi River region Missouri ⓘ Tennessee ⓘ
opposedBy	Confederate Western armies ⓘ
partOf	Union Army ⓘ
primaryObjective	defeat of Confederate forces in the western theater ⓘ
resultedIn	Union control of the Mississippi River by 1863 ⓘ capture of key Confederate cities in the western theater ⓘ isolation of Confederate Trans-Mississippi region ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of the Mississippi River ⓘ destruction of Confederate logistical capacity in the West ⓘ division of the Confederacy ⓘ
theaterOfOperations	Western Theater of the American Civil War ⓘ
timePeriod	1861–1865 ⓘ

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Military Division of the Mississippi → jurisdiction → Western Union armies ⓘ