Why did Union troops participate in the Great Locomotive Chase? to allow a railroad to ship cotton and other crops to the North to stop a railroad from shipping supplies to Confederate troops to capture a railroad center in the South for the Union to use to take over a railroad connected to a port and preserve the blockade PLEASE HELP!!! Will give brainliest to whoever answers correctly!

The Great Locomotive Chase has become a legendary event that unfolded during the early years of the Civil War, an attempt by Union forces and sympathizers to destroy railroad infrastructure north of Atlanta, Georgia in hopes of eventually capturing the strategic city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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