[pawdoggie]

This isn't to say Lincoln wasn't a great or even an intellectual president but let's face it, he's got the name recognition because of the situation he found himself in. If Millard Fillmore had been president during the Civil War with it ending as it did we'd always be talking about him and he'd be on the penny. If Millard Fillmore had been President during the Civil War, there's no way the North could have won. Black people would still be held in slavery, and we'd all be speaking with a drawl.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

If Millard Fillmore had been President during the Civil War, there's no way the North could have won.

You may or not be right but the main reason the North won was because they had more in the way of soldiers and resources. Grant especially took advantage of that and in fact Lincoln was not really all that involved in the military planning or decisions per se but preferred instead to leave that up to his incompetent generals.

It's very possible Fillmore would have handled the situation differently causing the North to lose but most likely he or any other president of that era would have played the same attrition game.