According to T. H. Williams, the North won the Civil war because they “brought forward generals who were able to grow” and would employ new ways of war. Although Civil war generals trained at West Point together and grew up in the same establishment, some were more successful than others hence Grant and Sherman having the ability to adapt. In the Civil war, there were only three important generals: Lee, Grant, and Sherman. They were great leaders since they were mentally tough and did not care much for casualties since they were big in numbers. The greatest among those three was Grant due to his common sense since it made “him able to rise above military dogma.” Grant was considered a modern general meaning that he practiced Clausewitz’ way
