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Why was Ulysses S. Grant given command of the Union armies in 1864?

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Lincoln was disappointed with the previous commanders of the Union army, and after Grant's victory in Vicksburg, Lincoln decided that he was the man to win the war.
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its b he had defeated confederate troops in Georgia
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