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He simplified the issues, focusing all resources into the destruction of the two main enemy armies, while ending the system of prisoner-exchange, knowing that the Confederates were running out of recruits and would not be able to replace their losses.

This turned it into a war of attrition, which only the North could win.

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He ended prisoner-exchange, knowing that the Confederates would run out of manpower first.

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