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Despite the tremendous goal of President Lincoln to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, there was never any real danger of this happening until late in the War.
Early in the war, in 1862 General George McClellan, leader of the Union's Army of the Potomac, failed to even attack Richmond due to bad planning and the great generalship of the South.
It seemed that the only way to take Richmond in 1864 under Grant was to lay siege on Richmond.
Richmond endured a 10 month siege before it was captured. This seems almost impossible to believe that Richmond did not fall to the Union at the onset of the war. Such was the state of the Union's inept strategies and tactics.
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General Grant and his army set out to attack Lee and take?
Richmond
How fast did Grant take Richmond?
It took General Grant nearly two years to take Richmond after being given control of the eastern armies in the late summer of 1863. Grant's forces faced tremendous costs and setbacks in the journey of only about 150 miles from the Potomac to Richmond. This series of horrible, costly, slow-moving battles set an example for World War I, with trench warfare, long-range artillery, set battle lines, mass casualties, and more.
What was the strategy developed by general Grant to cut off the supply lines to Richmond?
Grant put the city of Richmond under siege by essentially surrounding it and cutting off any supply route. The above answer requires more detail. In the Spring of 1864 Grant devised a strategy to cut Richmond's supply lines from the South. Five railroads led from the city of Petersberg to Richmond, Grant's plan was to destroy these and Richmond would surely fall. This strategy was placed in jepoardy and Richmond would live to see another day.
Did Grant's men enter and capture Petersburg and Richmond?
yES HE DID
What are the three battles that grant army fought on the way to Richmond?
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