The Prince of America. The McClellan Regime, #2

In the early morning hours of February 11, 1862, the Army of the Potomac, the largest army ever assembled on the North American continent, marched into the city of Washington under the orders of General George Brinton McClellan.  Bridges were closed and goverment buildings were taken as the city was swiftly placed under miitary occupation.  In the White House, President Abraham Lincoln is awakened and placed under arrest by soldiers belonging to the famed "Iron Brigade".  By sunrise, General McClellan has installed himself as the undisputed dictator of the United States of America.
Thus begins The McClellan Regime, an alternate version of American history where the Constitution has been discarded and replaced with the iron rule of an autocrat.  The Prince of America continues the story begun in the first book in the series, American Bonaparte.  In each installment, we have familiar characters from history, now in unfamiliar settings, trying to make sense of what has happened to the nation and struggling to set things right.
In 1892, seven years after the death of George McClellan, America is ruled by a coalition of Army generals, maintaining the military dictatorship that has existed since the Civil War.  Only a few individuals know of McClellan's Last Orders, a startling secret that will upset the carefully balanced status quo.  With news that the General's only son, George McClellan, Jr., is on his way home from an extended stay in Europe, the various factions prepare for a struggle that will alter forever the nature of The McClellan Regime.  Add to the mix three interested parties:  a New York politician named Theodore Roosevelt, a Massachusetts spinster named Lizzie Borden, and newspaperman Sylvanus Cadwallader's son John.