A General in Lee's Army Shares the Opinion of U.S. Grant's Leadership in 1864
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When the U.S. Army of the Potomac opened its spring 1864 campaign against the C.S. Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary fresh from the war's Western Theater: Ulysses S. Grant. One of Lee's subordinates, Brig. Gen. Evander M. Law recalled how little his fellow senior officers knew of Grant, and the low opinion they had of his generalship.
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