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.
Ulysses 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.
Because 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.
US 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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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.
Ulysses S. Grant because, Robert E. Lee declined the opportunity
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.
As President, he was Commander-in-Chief of all Union Armed Forces.
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.
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.
Ulysses S. Grant was the Commanding General of the United States Army from March 9, 1864 - March 4, 1869.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
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.
He was indeed. He was the commander of all Union armies when the Civil War ended.