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Why did the war go on, and on and on?
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Well let's begin with Grant and Lee,
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these two great warriors
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around whose names, symbols,
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actions, decisions
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a good deal of the war would hinge in the final year.
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Grant, from his successes in the west--fall of Vicksburg,
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Siege and fall of Chattanooga,
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the victory at Chickamauga--
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Came east, appointed by Abraham Lincoln
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as general of the army.
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Congress actually revived a special