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Attrition.

Grant ended the system of prisoner exchange, knowing that the South, with its much smaller population, would run short of manpower first.

Then he just went on battering away at the Confederate lines till they grew too thin to hold, while Sheridan and Sherman destroyed the rich farmlands that supplied the armies in the field.

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