The Union's Western Campaign was conducted with one primary goal: to cut the Confederacy into two halves. Achieving this goal would isolate the western Confederate states, weaken the eastern Confederate states, and open up the Deep South to invasion from the west.
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The original goal of the union was to preserve the union at all cost.
To win back Tennessee, and to liberate the Mississippi, isolating all the Confederate troops to the West of the river.
The Battle of Chickamauga, also called the Chickamauga Campaign, was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
The Ohio River was not used by General Grant in the Union campaign in the west.