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Union armies attacked Virginia twice to take the Confederacy's salt
Saltville, Virginia, was one of the Confederacy's main saltworks. Union forces were turned back at the First Battle of Saltville on 2 October 1864, a battle followed by the murder of wounded Black Union soldiers. Two months later, General George Stoneman's cavalry captured the works, a major blow to the South.
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- Wikipedia. Saltville, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltville,_Virginia