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The loss of the South\u2019s most important port and largest city had followed on the heels of the loss of Tennessee\u2019s Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February and the ignominious retreat from Shiloh in early April. These setbacks, after the virtually uninterrupted Southern successes of 1861, caused many across the Confederacy to wonder, in the words of the South Carolina diarist Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, if \u201cthese reversals and terrible humiliations \u2026 come from Him to humble our hearts and remind us of our total helplessness without His aid.\u201d
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