... a very successful military commander. He realized that numbers and resources were on his side, also he knew how to exploit the North's military advantages (Brinkley 396). In 1864, Lincoln made Ulysses S. Grant general in chief of all the Union armies. Grant was not a strategic or tactical general; he simply believed in using the North's great advantage in troops and material resources ... ...

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