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Lee's losses, although lower in absolute numbers, were higher in percentage (over 50%) than Grant's (about 45%), [109] and more critically, while Grant could expect reinforcements to replace his army's losses, Lee largely could not. His losses were irreplaceable.
Having already secured a victory one year ago in similar circumstances, Lee hoped to fight Grant in the Wilderness. [49] However, Lee needed Longstreet's First Corps to be in position to fight before the battle started. [61] As Grant's plan became clearer to Lee on May 4, Lee arranged his forces to use the advantages of the Wilderness. [59]
The Wilderness Campaign is a two-player board wargame in which one player acts as Union commander Grant, and the other as Confederate commander Lee. With a complex turn sequence, and many factors to consider in terms of land, sea and river combat, rail movement, reconnaissance and leadership, the game has been described as "fairly complex."
Lee vs. Grant was designed by Joseph Balkoski, with artwork by Rosaria Baldari and Ted Koller, and was published in 1988 by Victory Games, an imprint of Avalon Hill.Using a revision of Lee vs. Grant ' s rules system, Balkoski would go on to design five games in what became known as the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War (GCACW) series, which were published by Avalon Hill from 1992–1998.
At Gettysburg, Lee's men also sustained almost seven thousand casualties in the Pickett-Pettigrew assault, most of them also within a half hour. Yet this attack is perceived as an example of great courage and honor. This contrast speaks volumes about the comparative images of Grant and Lee, North and South, Union and Confederacy. [65]
The Appomattox campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865, in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to forces of the Union Army (Army of the Potomac, Army of the James and Army of the Shenandoah) under the overall command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, marking the effective ...
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Lee and Grant at Appomattox depicts the surrender of the Confederate States of America to Union soldiers. In specific, it portrays the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, helping to bring about the end of the American Civil War. Kantor mainly discusses the feelings of each army, both ...