Episode #181: Ulysses Grant #6: Commanding General and Victory (1864-1865)

Ulysses Grant #6: Commanding General and Victory (1864-1865); Topics covered include: Civil War, promoted to Lieutenant General and Commanding General of the Union Army, strategy to win the war, Overland Campaign (including Battles at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Cold Harbor), crosses James River, siege at Petersburg, Battle of the Crater, William Sherman captures Atlanta, Abraham Lincoln is re-elected, Lincoln's views on Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee surrenders his Army of Northern Virginia to Grant at Appomattox Court House, celebrations in the North, and President Lincoln is assassinated

Key people: James Longstreet, Henry Halleck, George Meade, William Sherman, Franz Sigel, Benjamin Butler, Nathaniel Banks, John Rawlins, Phil Sheridan, Benjamin Butler, William ("Baldy") Smith, Henry Pleasants, Ambrose Burnside, James Ledlie, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee

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