From May 1864 until the war's end eleven months later, U.S. Grant's Army of the Potomac slugged it out with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia across the fields and woods of central Virginia. Facing Grant's overwhelming superiority in men and materiel, Lee again and again showed his tactical genius in the utilization of his diminishing resources.
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