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Grant was very different from McClellan. They were both excellent in different fields, but Grant was more effective...
McClellan was an excellent planner and had much experience on the battlefield, the problem was that he wasn't a very good leader. He wasn't good at making decisions in a fast-paced battlefield, and often kept many soldiers to doing nothing at very important points of the war. Although McClellan had kept the Union's morale in tip-top shape, they hadn't been doing to good in the war, especially a huge failed attack to seize Richmond, Virginia. Lincoln did not approve of McClellan, and he was out of the major general position after a brief term (November 1861 to March 1862).
Now lets move on to Ulysses S. Grant (18th President of the United States)...
As many people know, Grant was the last general Lincoln hired and won the Civil War against Robert E. Lee's stellar South. Unlike McClellan, Grant was an aggressive general and seized key points like Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River. Grant was a fast-paced general that was definitely needed for the Civil War. The battle that won it all was when Grant's Union army captured Richmond (the Confederacy capital) in April 1865... the final blow for the Confederate army...
So yes, Grant was a very effective general. After a series of different generals, Lincoln had found the perfect one!
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What was general McClellan's problem leading the union troops?
McClellan was better at building an army(training,drilling etc.) than he was at field command(actually using the army in battle). He was often overestimating the numbers of Confederate troops opposing him and he regularly called for more troops to be sent to him when he already had superior numbers.
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McClellan was a Major General ("two star general"). The Yankees had no one of higher rank than two stars, on the grounds that Washington had been a three star general, and nobody was as good as Washington, until Lincoln promoted Grant to three stars in 1864, so there would be no question that Grant outranked everybody and was in command. Grant was the only three star officer for the north - he was THE Lieutenant General. The south had 30 or so three stars and eight four stars.
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grant plan was very smart and they toke time to think what was going to happen so that's why they win
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