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American History Tellers: Episode 5
Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the north Lincoln hoped victory was finally in his grasp He wrote now if General Mead can complete his work the rebellion will be over But on July 12 Lincoln learned that Mead had failed to pursue Lee after his retreat from Gettysburg. On the next episode Ulysses S. Grant lays out a strategy to crush the South Democrat George McClellan challenges Lincoln for the presidency. William Tecumseh Sherman carves a path of wreckage through the Georgia Heartland.
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