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Union
Casualties: 61,000
Confederate Casualties:
38,000
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Statistical Source: EACW
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Trench warfare at Petersburg: By the spring of 1865, the
lines at Petersburg - where, U.S.
Grant said, "I mean to end the business"
- ran for fifty-three miles. The efficient Union war machine
kept its army fed, supplied, and reinforced from its constantly
restocked depots at City Point, while the Confederate
army - ill fed, ill clothed, and hopelessly outnumbered
- steadily melted away.
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