It is May 4, 1864 and Ulysses Grant starts to move the Army of the Potomac south. His objective is not the capture Richmond, but the destruction of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee, a thirty five year veteran and a hero of the Mexican War is the Confederacy's most able general. However, his experience and abilities will be trumped by the preponderance of men and equipment available to the union forces. Not quite a year later, after thousands...
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