How did Ulysses S. Grant finally manage to defeat Lee, effectively ending the war?

Answer 1

A more simpler answer is that the war stop fighting the solders but the whole country.

The first move was know as the Anaconda Plan

1. First blockade the South so the South can't supply its troops with imports and stop the export of cotton to fund the war

2. Cut the East from the West by taking the Mississippi river and take a supply route from the CSA

3. Take the Capital Richmond

Grant and Sherman made a new plan for move number three.

Destroy the supply system of the South in Georgia, while Grant attacks and holds Lee at Richmond.

Then Sherman marched through the Carolina's to meet up with Grant like the moving part of a vice. After losing the ability to supply his troops and men leaving to protect their families from Sherman, Lee had no choice but to surrender.

Answer 2

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How did Ulysses S. Grant finally manage to defeat Lee, effectively ending the war?

Answer 3

Grant did not beat Lee so much as he simply wore the Army of Northern Virginia completely out.

Unlike any Federal commander before him, Grant had the bulldog tenacity to grab Lee and never let go. From initial contact in the Wilderness in the first week of May, 1864, until the end of the war, there was hardly a day in which the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were not in contact.

Grant lacked finesse, but he had iron nerve. He had the fortitude to pour 40,000 men into a meatgrinder attack and see them stagger back with 20-50% casualties and he'd puff on his cigar and think, "Damn, that didn't work. Wonder if I hit them again tomorrow if they can break through? Better shift some fresh troops into position tonight."



While Grant held Lee in a stranglehold, Sherman tore the heart out of the South with his March to the Sea. Sherman's March is what really won the war for the Union. Without the destruction of Atlanta, and the abject demoralization of the civilian population of Georgia and the Carolinas, Lee could have held off Grant long enough for even Lincoln to get sick of the casualty lists.

Without Sherman's victories in the Atlanta Campaign, there was a good chance that Lincoln might have failed re-election. Had that happened, Lincoln's successor would have made peace with the Confederacy, probably recognizing it's independence.

Because of Sherman's March, thousands of Georgians and Carolinians deserted from the Army of Northern Virginia to go home to try to protect their families. And because of the march, the railroads were destroyed and vital supplies were unable to reach Lee's armies. When Lee finally surrendered his starving army of scarecrows, there were hundreds of thousands of tons of food, arms and munitions simply waiting to be transported to Virginia, and no way to get it there.

So how did Grant "beat" Lee? Grant bled him to death in an 11 month long knife fight.

Doc

Good LORD!!! And I was afraid I was being long winded!!! LMH

Answer 4

attrition and constant attack

first of all he wore Lee's army down, while a strong force The ANV was not getting replacements as the Union army was.

Secondly it was "tradition" in the Union army to fight a battle, then lay back for months licking wounds and planning, Grant ended that and constantly pushed forward, a very different and much more effective strategy

Answer 5

By conducting a new kind of warfare, not sparing civilians. By wearing down numbers in Lee's army. By being a competent general.

Answer 6

I think he won only because of the number of soldiers that Ulysses S. Grant had.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

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