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　　In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln named GeneralUlysses Grant commander of all Union armies.Lincoln hoped that Grant could end the nearly three-year-long Civil War.

　　Grant noted that, in the past, the separate Unionarmies had moved and fought independently. He saidthey were like a poorly trained team of horses. Notwo of them ever pulled at the same time in the same direction.

　　Under his command, Grant said, the Union armies would pull together -- they would all attackat the same time. The main target, once again, was the Confederate capital at Richmond,Virginia.

　　Grant's Overland Campaign began in May 1864. One of the first battles was about halfwaybetween Richmond and Washington, DC.

　　The Union Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia clashed in a woodedarea west of Fredericksburg, Virginia.?

　　The battle quickly became a blind struggle. The woods were thick. The smoke was heavy. Thesoldiers could not see each other until they were very close. Shells set the trees on fire. Thewounded could not escape the flames. Their screams filled the air.

　　After two days, General Grant decided that the wilderness was not the place to fight theConfederate force under General Robert E. Lee. Grant wanted to fight in the open, where hecould use his artillery. So he marched his men toward a place called Spotsylvania Court House.

　　Lee moved his men as fast as Grant moved his. When the Union army reached Spotsylvania,the Confederates were waiting behind walls of earth and stone.

　　For several more days, the two armies fought. At times, they were so close they had no time toload and fire their guns. So they used their guns to hit each other.

　　The Confederate line bent. But it never broke. Once again, Lee had stopped the Union army.

　　Grant refused to accept defeat. He said he would fight to the finish, if it took all summer. Onceagain, he ordered his men to march around the end of Lee's line. Lee quickly pulled his menback to a place called Cold Harbor, not far from Richmond.

　　While the Union army marched and then rested, Confederate troops built a complex system oftrenches. By the time the Union army was prepared to attack, Lee's men were ready behindthese defenses.

　　As he had done in the wilderness and at Spotsylvania, Grant ordered his men to attack hard.But Lee's soldiers, protected by their trenches, slaughtered the Union forces. In less than anhour, 7,000 Union soldiers fell dead or wounded.

　　Grant finally stopped the attack. The Union soldiers returned to their lines. They left behindhundreds of wounded men.

　　For four days, the wounded lay on the battlefield crying for help, for water. Men who tried torescue them were shot down. Finally, Grant and Lee agreed on a ceasefire to care for thewounded.

　　But the ceasefire came too late for most. They had died. In the end, nearly 13,000 Union troopswere killed, missing, or wounded at Cold Harbor. The South suffered only about 4,500casualties.

　　The battle at Cold Harbor was General Lee's last major victory in the Civil War. It also showedhow the war had changed. Taking a strong defensive position, as Lee had done, had provedmore important than launching a powerful attack.

　　Still, General Grant was resolved to defeat the Confederate forces and take their capital. Heplanned his next moves.