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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

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