History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2157 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Grant's Strategy
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The idea
Grant relied on superior numbers and on the recognition that Union soldiers could be replaced while Confederate soldiers could not, advancing relentlessly despite massive casualties.
In practice
The Wilderness in May eighteen sixty-four, where Confederates halted him and he pushed forward anyway.
Where people slip
Spotsylvania followed, then Cold Harbor in early June, then a nine-month siege of Petersburg, the rail centre supplying Richmond.
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