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Grant Comes to Virginia:
Ulysses S. Grant had won a succession of victories in the west -- victories that threatened the survival of the Confederacy. But Grant knew that when the nation and the world judged how the war was progressing, they looked to Virginia.
In March 1864, the new General-in-Chief decided to make his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac -- the Union's largest and most prominent army, but one that had won few victories against Robert E. Lee. |