Ulysses S. Grant had been promoted to…
March 1864 CE
Ulysses S. Grant had been promoted to lieutenant general on March 9.
Three days later, President Abraham Lincoln appoints him General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States.
In the spring of 1864, Grant sets in motion a grand strategy designed to press the Confederacy into submission.
"My primary mission," reasoned Grant, "is to ... bring pressure to bear on the Confederacy so no longer could it take advantage of interior lines."
Grant devises a strategy of multiple, simultaneous offensives against the Confederacy, hoping to prevent any of the rebel armies from reinforcing the others over interior lines.
The two most significant of these are to be led by Major General George G. Meade's Army of the Potomac, accompanied by Grant himself, which is to attack Robert E. Lee's army directly and advance toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia; and Major General William T. Sherman, replacing Grant in his role as commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, who is to advance from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta.
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