Grant Comes East before 1864.

Apparently Grant raised and trained several regiments once the war started, and also came close to seeing McClellan several times, and was refused, in Illinois before McClellan was shipped east to command the AOTP. So, what if McClellan sees Grant and transfers him east with him.


Essentially, i am asking what would it be like if Grant was in the AOTP at the beginning of the war? How far would he go?
 
Apparently Grant raised and trained several regiments once the war started, and also came close to seeing McClellan several times, and was refused, in Illinois before McClellan was shipped east to command the AOTP. So, what if McClellan sees Grant and transfers him east with him.


Essentially, i am asking what would it be like if Grant was in the AOTP at the beginning of the war? How far would he go?

What rank is Grant as of transfer? Is he an open McClellan man? Is he as (effectively) apolitical as OTL?
 
He was offered a Captaincy or Colonelcy, AFAIK/Remember.

If he is a McClellan man, well, i guess that might change as time goes by.

Grant is pretty much his own man, if i may say s, so that might not be good for McClellan in the short run.
 
I think that the politics in the eastern theater, together with the lack of sufficient rank to simply tell anyone bothering him to go to hell, would ruin him. This assumes that someone else is General in Chief at the time of the transfer. Also, I realize that going West was no cure for politics, but it got worse the closer to DC one was posted, apparently.
 
The advantage of being in the West was the opportunity for independent command. Up through Shiloh, that's what every assignment he had was, for all intents and purposes.

If he was in the East, he'd almost certainly end up in the AotP. I'm sure he would have acquitted himself well, but he wouldn't have the opportunities to really shine like he did at Belmont, Donelson, and Vicksburg.
 
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