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As you know General George McClellan was killed when his horse tripped badly over some rocks and he flew into a tree and died of a broken neck. A freak accident if there ever was won. Would he have done even better than his replacement? After all he was the best general in the Union Army at the time and it was skills that got the army to Hanover Court House just before he died. On the other his death inspired the Union Army like nothing else. "For George" was the battle cry for far more than one Union regiment. Many Union soldiers felt that it would be disgracing the memory of Little Mac not to give an all-out effort, particularly when the rumor (untrue) got out that he died when personally spying out the enemy positions. Would Richmond have fallen before July 11th as in OTL?