"General Grant tended to pick men in his own mold to lead his armies in the field. Phil Sheridan fit his style, as did William Tecumseh Sherman, whose Army of the Cumberland cut a swath into Georgia that resulted in the capture of Atlanta on September 2. This news hit Washington just three weeks after Admiral Farragut had captured Mobile Bay in Alabama and, coupled with Sheridan's victory in Virginia, virtually assured Lincoln's reelection. The next six months would see an endless string of Union victories that all but destroyed the Confederacy. The fall of such Southern strongholds as Nashville, Savannah, Wilmington, Columbia, Petersburg, and Richmond insured a final Union victory that was to come at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865."
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Activists from the United StatesPeople from New York (state)Catholics from the United StatesGenerals of the Union ArmyCommanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff of the United States Army
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Donald T. Philips, Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times (1978), revised 2009 edition, p. 134-135
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