Union General US Grant was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General by President Lincoln in March of 1864. Grant was only the second US general to hold this high rank which gave him control of all Union forces. Previously only George Washington held this title.
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Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Army.
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.
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U.S. Grant - though it is still debated whether Grant (General-in-Chief) or George Meade (Army commander) should have taken the surrender of Lee.
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He knew Grant would do anything to win the war.
He knew Grant would do anything to win the war.
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Ulysses S. Grant took command of the Union Armies during the final years of the US Civil War receiving full command of the troops in early 1864. He was appointed by US President Lincoln. Grant was also given the special title of Lieutenant General. Grant has been given credit for the general that defeated the South. This had been the title of George Washington and no other US general ever had it until it was given to Grant. The Confederacy used the title of lieutenant general during the war.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president
Lincoln knew that Grant would do anything to win the war.
Ulysses Grant was commander of the Union Army.
There were no wars in the United States while Ulysses Simpson Grant was president.
The Union armies of the James and the Potomac under the overall command of Grant end the Confederate Army of the Northern Virginia, under the overll command of Lee.