Why was it important for the union to win a major battle?

The First Battle of Bull Run was the first major engagement of the war. The first phase of the campaign would be to attack the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia amassed at a creek known as Bull Run, thus allowing troops from the larger Union army to flank and destroy the Confederate line

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protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.