virtually unknown when the war began, grant rose to become the union's best general and supreme commander of the union armies. in a crisis, he was the man the soldiers wanted to lead them. lee, his confederate counterpart, seemed like the clever, elusive fox, while grant appeared to be the slow, plodding bloodhound.
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