He failed to take over Petersburg, but he held it under siege for nine months. Grant attacked Petersburg, the city below Richmond. He was determined to gain control of Richmond. Grant lost twice as many soldiers as Lee, but this did not stop him.

Petersburg: Grant lost two major battles at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor in Virginia. Although there were heavy losses for the Union, they had civilians to call on for reinforcement unlike the confederates.ĥ. Grant lost 6,000 more soldiers than Lee, but he was still pushing south toward Richmond and not back to Washington in retreat. For those who were not immediately killed, the forest fires took care of the remaining soldiers who were too hurt to crawl away. The Battle of the Wilderness : Grant and Lee's armies finally came face to face in Virginia. Grant used his Navy skillfully again as at Vicksburg and sent 116 boats down the Tennessee river to push back Confederates on the Chattanooga side of the river and built a pontoon bridge to bring the troops across.Ĥ. Grant called help from the Army of Tennessee and brought supplies to the Union troops. Lincoln realizing how severe the situation was made Grant commander of all troop sand ordered him to save Rosecrans troop. General Rosecrans was surrounded by confederates under General Braxton. Chattanooga(September 1863) : In Chattanooga, Tennessee a union troop was in danger of being starved to death. Grant ended up using siege warfare, and after two months the starving confederates surrendered.ģ. This worked, but the confederates were still too strong and the unionist would not be able to hold out long in there. Grant sent his gunboats to push past the confederates fire. Vicksburg was hard to take over because they sat up high where the guards could see almost everything approaching, and the north was all swampland which the union soldiers could not march through. Vicksburg: If Grant could gain Vicksburg, Mississippi, then the confederacy would be broken in half over the Mississippi river. The general Simon Bolivar of Fort Donelson was an old friend of Grants, and when he asked for the terms of surrender, Grant replied,' No terms except immediate and unconditional surrender.' This victory earned Grant a promotion as Major General.Ģ. This was important because this allowed unionist to get inside of Nashville which was the first confederate state capitol to fall under the Unions control. The Battle at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson: Grant as commander in 1862 led a mission that ended with the capture of Fort Henry on the Tennessee river and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland.

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