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title: "How did the Union take New Orleans, and why was it an important victory?"  
description: "How did the Union take New Orleans, and why was it an important victory?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-05-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43233/how-did-the-union-take-new-orleans-and-why-was-it-an-important-victory  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did the Union take New Orleans, and why was it an important victory?

How did the [Union](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1510/union-example-in-sql-server) take New [Orleans](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41954/what-groups-helped-the-freed-slaves-who-were-living-in-new-orleans-following-the-civil-war), and why was it an important victory?


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