The Ohio River was not used by General Grant in the Union campaign in the west.
The Tennessee River and the Cumberland River were used by General Grant in the Union campaign.
The Potomac River
The Tennesee and Cumberoland River.
U.S. Grant, before he was famous.
Ulysses Grant
On July 4, 1863, Confederate general John Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, thus ending a lengthy campaign for Union control of the Mississippi.
The 1864 Overland campaign was designed to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia, however, although Grant's assaults in Virginia cost the Union extremely heavy casualties and also created Confederate casualties, there was no decisive and major victories for the Union. Ultimately General Grant used a siege against Petersburg and Richmond. The heavy pressure that General Grant used against the Virginia Confederates, helped General Sherman's Atlanta campaign and his March to the Sea. With Lee outnumbered in Virginia, Grant's operations prevented any Rebel reinforcements to be sent to stop Sherman in the Deep South.
Ulysses S. Grant came after General Henry Halleck. This happened when Halleck was called to Washington to become the new Union general in chief.
Ulysses S. Grant came after General Henry Halleck. This happened when Halleck was called to Washington to become the new Union general in chief.
General Tecumseh Sherman, was the Union General who ransacked the South, all the way to the sea. He took over the Union Campaign in the west after General Ulysses S. Grant took over command of the Union Army, or the Army of the Potomac.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president