How did Grant's military strategy lead to Union victory in the American Civil War?
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Grant's immediate concern was to overcome the Army of Northern Virginia; he put General Sherman in charge of Union troops in the West and moved his own headquarters to Virginia.
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He devised a strategy that would strike at the Confederacy from multiple directions. Sherman and Nathaniel Banks came up from the South, while others came in from the North and West.