I was reading a book on the civil war called the longest night: a military history of the civil war by David j eicher. One of the things that caught my eye is where he writes that john e wool who was commanding troops at ft Monroe outranked McClellan who was transporting his army to that area in order to start his peninsular campaign. Wool ends up getting transferred to Baltimore Maryland in order that McClellan did not have to answer to him. I was wondering how different the war in the east would have been if McClellan had died before the peninsular campaign ever began, let's say either janurary or feburary. If wool was to replace him, who he have done the same campaign as McClellan or would he have come up with something totally different?