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What if General Grant was killed during the battles for Fort Henry and Donelson(February 6-16 1862)? That would have been a huge blow for the Union army and might have prolonged the Civil War for a year or two with the poor leadership that the Army of the Potomac had before Grant. General Sherman(IMO) might very well have achieved the prominence that Grant wound up having during the Civil War.
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