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Interesting point re: Grant dying. In such a situation it seems to me like Sherman would be his likeliest successor, since he did enjoy a similarly senior stature among the Union generals and historically succeeded Grant as Commanding General of the US Army IRL when the latter became president...

Interesting - how much more violent and ruthless do you foresee the North being? For example, would land confiscations (followed by redistribution to Southern Unionists, Northern 'carpetbaggers', the freedmen or more likely all three) be on the table, or even Charles Sumner's state suicide...

Since there seems to be a bit of an ACW kick right now, an interesting WI has occurred to me: per the title, what if John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators had seen to the deaths of all their targets? Historically besides Lincoln, they were also gunning for Vice President Andrew Johnson...