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To hold the Army of Northern Virginia in check while Sherman in the West and Sheridan in the East systematically destroyed the South's ability to support the army: farms, factories, railroads, and all other war materiel; so that none of it got to the army, in effect, denying the Southern army the ability to wage war.

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