If Grant decided he wanted to rehabilitate his image in the public as a butcher for Cold Harbor, etc - could he have basically just sat the AoP in front of Petersburg and literally not done a thing and still won the war by April of 1865? Basically, let Sherman keep doing what he was doing, Lee can't really move too many troops away for fear that Grant will push.
I don't see anything changing Sherman's trajectory and march through Georgia and then north to meet Grant. So if Grant just sits there, does the Union still win and by the way, a lot fewer casualties for both sides in the Eastern armies?
I don't see anything changing Sherman's trajectory and march through Georgia and then north to meet Grant. So if Grant just sits there, does the Union still win and by the way, a lot fewer casualties for both sides in the Eastern armies?