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After Grant became General-in-Chief in March 1864.

Grant simplified the Union strategy, and said that he would take on Robert E. Lee, while Sherman was to destroy the Army of Tennessee under Joe Johnston (later John Hood).

Sherman did not succeed in doing this. But his alternative plan - crossing Georgia and the Carolinas almost unopposed - did have the effect of shortening the war.

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