The Virginia Campaign, 1864 and 1865Recounts the climactic year long grapple between the Civil War's two foremost generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. A classic campaign history. Brooks D. Simpson Most people still view the final, bloody confrontation between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee as a relentless grinding away of the Army of Northern Virginia in a continuous battle of attrition, attributing Grant's victory not to his generalship but to his overwhelming superiority