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Nice job. Though it's sort of weird to see McClellan being the hero. I was pleased that the 1% chance of having Garibaldi enter the game came through. (I wonder if the player who asked for Garibaldi to be added is still out there, and knows that we did this. By the way, anyone who wants to play with the historical what-if of Lincoln accepting Garibaldi's offer can easily mod the %chance of his entering the game higher than 1%.)

Only one complaint. You finished in 1863 -- couldn't you have toyed with the enemy for another year or two?

Actually, McClellan wasn't the top attention-getter.  Runyon's battles with Twiggs in the Virginia were the show-stopper, but Fremont was really the hero, if anyone was.  He was the one who led the drive down the Mississippi.  McClellan never even finished the liberation of Tennesee by the time the war ended.  Fremont being prominent throughout the war was odd enough, much less that McClellan never got the top spot.
 
Garibaldi, after initially being dismissed and demoted as useless, came into his own as a division commander.  I used random stats (mostly because that gives me a better Civil War feel - trying to find the right general for the right job was as much a part of that war as the fighting itself), and his were not very good.  However, his performance in the field as always in the top tier of my generals.  He won far more battles than he lost.  Of course, once the brigades in his division got seasoned, he really didn't have to do all that much.  I think Garibaldi was one of only one or two demotions.
 
Also of interest is the fact that neither Grant nor Sherman rose above Corps command.  In fairness, they never really got a chance to shine as they were corps commanders in Fremont's army, and after mid to late '62, they spent the rest of the war in one entrenchment after another laying siege to a series of southern forts and cities.
 
As for ending the war too soon, what can I say?  I was ready for it to be over, honestly, as the only remaining field threat was Twiggs' army in Virginia and it was all but impotent after its last two defeats.  The field commands out west had pretty much whittled down to minor annoyances and were easily dealt with by the various independent divisions and Hunter's Corps, leaving the armies to focus on their siegework - and sieges aren't all that fun. [;)]