To: NohSpinZone
" clinched reelection for President Lincoln later that year."
If anything the Overland Campaign hurt Lincoln because of the casualties
that Grant took...The taking of Atlanta by Sherman was what clinched it
for Abe.
12 posted on
05/08/2021 7:28:57 PM PDT by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: major_gaff
You’re right. Atlanta and capture of Mobile under Farragut clinched it.
15 posted on
05/08/2021 8:44:29 PM PDT by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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