re: #44 HappyWarrior

I think the war turns out differently if he has an equal peer in those early 1861-62 battles. McClellan was on paper brilliant but IMO too timid a general and oto sympathetic to the CSA.

If Meade or Thomas had been commanding in the east early on, it would have been better for the union. However the raw recruits of the Union needed serious training and McClellan was excellent at training. That was his weakness as a combat commander - he hated to see them die.