and sort of just invade the whole middle heartland of the south

可能只有攻到了南方中部的腹地
until the south would give up.

他们才会投降
And in Virginia, Grant took battlefield command.

在弗州格兰特接过了战场指挥权
He didn't have to,

没必要
he could've stayed at his desk in Washington,

他完全可以呆在华盛顿的办公室里
but it was quite decidedly not his style;

但这并不是他做事的风格
He went into the field as the commander of the army of the Potomac.

他更情愿在前线指挥波多马克军团
Now, on the other side, in Robert E. Lee,

而在另一边罗伯特·李
the South had, without a question,

无疑是南方的一位伟大将领
we've said this before,

我们曾经提到过这一点
and there's so much been written on this,

而关于这件事情的记载也很多
you can't count it all.

多到难以计数