Sounds like U.S. Grant.
A heavy drinker certainly.
Butcher - yes, he appeared to be blase about his losses, but it was simply a war of attrition, and he knew the Confederates would run out of men first.
General Grant
Because he considered himself a Virginian first and an American second.
Union
Rosecrans
Union general Halleck planned the assault on Corinth. Indeed the city was evacuated by the Confederates before the assault.
General Grant
It was a major victory for the Union and was one of General Grant's early victories.
The Union's Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles had been a supporter of US Grant. This was known when Grant and he pushed for the capture of Mobile, Alabama, when US President Lincoln and General Henry Halleck trumped them by insisting that Texas was a more important target. After the Battle of Cold Harbor, however, Welles was less than a 100% backer of General Grant. Welles noted that people in the capital were calling General Grant a "butcher" based on his strategies and tactics in the Union's Virginia campaign 1864.
A General of the Union.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president
The top general for the Union was General Ulysses Grant.
Sherman was the union general in Atlanta.
General Robert E Lee was there, and at the time he was considered the best strategic general, however the Union did win a few battles in the east, like when Lee marched into Maryland, and at Gettysburg
Ulysses S. Grant was the union general
General Union was created in 1991-06.
General Philip Sheridan fought as a Union general in the American Civil War
It is considered as a union territory