This year saw the first major Confederate land victory in the West.
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1863, at the Battle of Chickamauga. Earlier, Confederate gunners atop the bluffs at Vicksburg, Mississippi, had thwarted a Union naval force in 1862 but Chickamauga, fought in North Georgia, Sept. 19 ? 20, 1863, was the first major rebel victory in the Western Theater.