"A Strange Sensation"

There was a difference between Grant and McClellan, or the types they represented, and, as the army came to realize surprisingly soon, the difference was in Grant's favor. One officer experienced a strange sensation at his introduction to Grant's generalship. He surveyed the field and found a new element present, and he recorded with a sense of wonderment: "I thought I detected in the management what I had never discovered before on the battlefield - a little common sense. Dash is handsome, genius glorious; but modest, old-fashioned, practical everyday sense is the trump, after all."

- T. Harry Williams, McClellan, Sherman and Grant