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Why did President Lincoln name Ulysses S. Grant commander of the Union armies?
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∙ 11y ago
Because he had gained strong credibility in all his campaigns, and was clearly a better choice than Henry Halleck, who was over-concerned with occupying territory, rather than destroying armies.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoUlysses S Grant was given command of the Union Army because he knew how to win battles. Following the Battle of Shiloh, Halleck had taken over in Washington. Grant had stayed with the army as it captured Tennessee and moved south to capture Vicksburg. During that campaign Grant learned how to win battles against a larger force. Grant made a number of mistakes. He did not make the same mistakes twice.
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∙ 11y agoBecause Grant's major and decisive victories showing his great strategic and logistic gifts and his exact understanding of the relationship existing between policy and war, convinced President Lincoln that the General was apt to to be appointed to the rank of General in Chief.
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∙ 8y agoUS President Lincoln was anxious to win the war, and as all politicians are, he wished to be reelected in 1864. US Grant was a choice that saved Lincoln's reelection bid at the cost of thousands of Union soldiers by the way Grant handled strategy and ruthless tactics.
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Who was the president that served as commander of the union armies during the civil war?
Abraham Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln fighting Robert E. Lee?
Notionally, yes. In the last phase of the war, Lee was General-in-Chief of the Confederate armies, while Lincoln, as US President, was automatically Commander-in-Chief of the Union armies. In practice, Lee was facing Ulysses Grant, whom Lincoln was most unlikely to over-rule.
Who did Lincoln announce would be the commander of all the union armies?
Ulysses S. Grant because, Robert E. Lee declined the opportunity
Civil war general president?
The civil war general president was Ulysses Grant. He served as the US commander and general of the Union armies. He later on became the 18th US president.
Did Abraham Lincoln command all of the Union armies?
As President, he was Commander-in-Chief of all Union Armed Forces.
What general won at Vicksburg and became commander of all Union armies?
Ulysses S. Grant was the general who won at Vicksburg, and became commander of all the Union Armies. Grant would go on to serve as the 18th President of the United States.
Who did lincoln appoint as commander of all union armies?
Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General March 2, 1864 and was appointed General in Chief of the Federal Armies on the 10th of that month.
What date did Lincoln make Ulysses S. Grant made commander of all union armies?
Ulysses S. Grant was the Commanding General of the United States Army from March 9, 1864 - March 4, 1869.
Who was the commander of all the northern armies from 1864 to the to the end of the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was named commander of all of the union armies in early 1864?
Ulysses S. Grant
What is Ulysses S. Grant's background?
Before becoming the 18th U.S. president, Ulysses S. Grant served as a U.S. general. He was also a commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War.
Was Ulysses grant a general?
He was indeed. He was the commander of all Union armies when the Civil War ended.
