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How Grant's One Crazy Trick Won the War

In May 1864, Ulysses Grant crossed the Rapidan River with 118,000 men and walked straight into the worst fighting of the Civil War. He lost more men in six weeks than any previous Union commander. He also won the war. How? One decision so simple it looked insane — and so insane it looked like suicide. This is the story of the Overland Campaign, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and the man who refused to go north. Was Grant a military genius, a butcher, or something history doesn't have a clean word for? 3 Academic Sources: Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5–6, 1864 (Louisiana State University Press, 1994) Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The Wilderness Campaign (University of North Carolina Press, 1997) Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865 (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)