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The early battles in the West - Fort Donelson, then Shiloh.

Grant wanted to pursue and destroy the enemy while things were going his way. But his boss, Henry Halleck, insisted on tying-up huge numbers of troops in occupying the conquered territory instead, and momentum was lost.

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