Determine to drag down McClellan aren't you haha.
I remember Catton, not a McClellan fan, discusses in the book amwiener mentioned above that the men "adored" McClellan but largely voted for Lincoln because they liked the direction the war was going and viewed McClellan as a peace candidate. They loved him as a commander because he took care of them, politics is a different matter. To say the AoP liked Grant more then McClellan or Meade, I think would be stretching it.
I posted this quote earlier by Gen. Alexander Webb I think it illustrates how many of the men felt:
"McClellan proceeded to equip and discipline the AoP with a skill and persistence which will be the admiration of military students for all time. He inspired the army with confidence, it believed him to be right in all his measures because it loved and respected him. The AoP never lost its reputation of being the best equipped and most efficient army on this continent and this reputation was due solely to General McClellan's system of organization."
Anyway this thread is about Grant we should leave McClellan aside.