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What if the federal hq had requested that Grant take command of the army of Potomac after Shiloh and before he set his eyes on Vicksburg?
Another possibilty. After Vicksburg he is allowed to go after Mobile? If he had marched with his army into the deep south he could have taken Atlanta from the south