What was the purpose of the Overland Campaign?
Grant’s Mission: Crush Lee’s Army The Overland Campaign, sometimes called the Wilderness Campaign, was a series of battles throughout Virginia in 1864 initiated by Union Commander Ulysses S. Grant to destroy Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and to eventually take the Confederate capital of Richmond. Who won in the Overland Campaign? Robert E. Lee’s Army…
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