What battle did General Ulysses S. Grant win?

Answer 1

Grant and Lee went head to head for the first time at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. Grant had assembled 120,000 men to Lee's 65,000. Grant lost 18,000 men to Lee's 11,000. Although Lee had won the battle, Grant, with his numerical superiority, inevitably won the war.

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattax court house April 1865

ANSWER

Grant's Overland Campaign led to the defeat of Lee. Through the successive battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, Grant managed to constantly reduce Lee's freedom of movement, because he became indissolubly tied up with the commitment of covering Richmond, though each one of those encounters resulted indecisive or minors tactical success for the Confederates.

The unique front where the Confederates had some influence on the operations was that of Shenandoah Valley but Sheridan's decisive victory upon the Confederates at Cedar Creek cut out any Lee's chance to actively hinder Grant's plans.

The Overland Campaign was the triumph of Grant's great strategy, whose last step, the decisive victory of Five Forks, signed the final defeat of Lee, who was compelled to evacuate both Petersburg and Richmond and then to surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Answer 2

Many, but most notably The Battle at Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg and he helped William T. Sherman orchestrate the famous Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea.

Grant's victories were well noted in that the Union (up until the time of Shiloh) was pretty much losing the majority of the battles. The Battle at Ft. Donelson and Shiloh were important not only for the strategy of gaining railroad transportation, but also a boost to the seeping morale of the North.