No he wasn't. Grant was a heavy drinker when assigned to boring garrison duty out west before the war, but he never drank when commanding troops during the war. He did suffer horrendessly from migraine headaches, and spent a lot of time alone in his tent so nobody would see. The press which followed the army, and his rivals in the army used that to spread the lie that he was a drunk.
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I stand corrected, but I do hope you got the main point.
“The press which followed the army, and his rivals in the army used that to spread the lie that he was a drunk.”
Supposedly, when Grant was proposed for Command of the Union Army this very thing came up about Grants drinking, to which Lincoln is said to have replied: “Find out what kind of whiskey he drinks, and give some to the rest of my generals”