The simplest answer and most accurate one is that on the first day of his presidency McClellan would have declared the war over. read more
My class must write an essay for a government course. We are to pick a U.S. presidential election and change the outcome. read more
Well, if the ONLY change to history is that McClellan had won the election (i.e. everything else, including the fall of Atlanta and Sherman's March had happened per history) and considering that in those days the new president wasn't inaugurated until March, then I think Lincoln, Grant and Sherman would have fought a winter campaign to end the war a month earlier than really happened. read more