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Many historians cite Ulysses S. Grant as the most successful general of the US Civil War. Grant was called upon by President Lincoln to be the final commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac. Grant engineered key Union victories and he forced Robert E. Lee to surrender in 1865, ending the War.

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