Who were the others?  I would definitely include Thomas, but would add Sherman, Grant, and Sheridan.  But you'd still have to say nice things about Meigs, Reynolds, Warren...lot of guys to choose from.  Rosecrans was good as long as he didn't overthink the problem.

Meigs? You are kiddin,g right?  Reynolds got himself DEAD, before he could do any real good.  Rosecrans was a mental case, who if he received professional help after Chickamauga, might have been salvaged. Warren is rather an up in the air case. Five Forks ruined him for any future service.

 

How about Schofield? Battle of Franklin winner he was. Then there was Don Carlos Buell.,a good general badly wronged by politics:. he was hounded out of service by Radical Republicans when he tried to prosecute one of their fair haired generals for a war crime. 

If Lee had taken command of the Union Army in 1860, Richmond falls by 1862.  The CSA might still have won at Bull Run, and Lee might have taken the head-on approach to Richmond.  Given his aggressiveness on the attack, though, I think he would've taken the city.  Since the CSA would have had no Army of Northern Virginia without Lee, this wouldn't have ended the war, but it certainly would've shortened it considerably.

(Which will probably give Hamlicar another reason to hate Lee...)

Nah, I already had plenty of reason to hate that slave-owning, oath-breaking traitor and mass murderer.