- Location
- Albany, NY
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The Best, Worst Case of the War
1861-1862: William Seward / Andrew H. Reeder (Republican)
1860: Samuel Houston / Robert C. Winthrop (Constitutional “Southern” Unionist) John C. Breckinridge / Isaac Toucey (Constitutional “Southern” Democratic), Stephen A. Douglas / James A. Seddon (National “Northern” Democratic)
1862-1863: Brvt. Lt. Gen. George B. McClellan / Mj. Gen. John A. McClernand (Independent)
1863-1865: Samuel S. “Sunset” Cox / Horace Greeley (National Unionist) [Acting]
1865-1873: George B. McClellan / Andrew Johnson (National Unionist)
1864: John C. Fremont / Lovell H. Rousseau (Radical Democratic), Franklin Pierce / Clement L. Vallandigham (Straight-Out Democratic), Abraham Lincoln / Ambrose E. Burnside (Republican) [Proscribed 10.64]
1868: Francis P. Blair, Jr. / John T. Hoffman (Independent National Unionist)
1873: George B. McClellan / Andrew Johnson (National Unionist) [Self-Proclaimed]
1872: Charles F. Adams, Sr. / William Saulsbury (Liberal)
1873-1877: Elihu B. Washburne / Daniel E. Sickles (Republican) [Acting, Congressional Appointment]
1877-1881: Daniel E. Sickles / John A. Logan (Republican)
1876: John Cochrane / Cassius M. Clay (Liberal), Lewis Wallace (National “Peace” Democratic)
The Election of President Seward in 1861 proved for a generation of Americans to be an utter disaster. From the Baltimore Uprising and the Secession of Kentucky in the first half of 1861 to the Autumn of 1862 Seward would veer between fierce determination and panic. The Emancipation Proclamation, announced just days before the disastrous battle of South Mountain tore the nation apart even further. After The Peninsula, John Pope and then the bloody battles of Harper's Ferry and Point of Rocks trust in the administration hit new lows. Two months after Joe Johnson's escape from Maryland, Seward and his War Secretary Edward Bates attempted to relive George McClellan from his command. In response the Army of the Potomac mutinied and marched on Washington. Seward was arrested and Reeder was forced to flee to Canada. Supreme leadership in his hands McClellan sought to cement his leadership with the trappings of legality while dispatching Fitz John Porter south to defeat Lee. The Battles of Mine Run and Chancellorsville followed, bloody affairs but form them McClellan thought he could assume a position of strength for Negotiations, and thus accepted the Franco-British-Russian offer of a half-year ceasefire for negotiations. Negotiations though in Halifax, Nova Scotia proved impossible and McClellan passed off control to his chosen Congressional Puppet to sign the de-facto permanent peace with the Confederacy before returning to supreme leadership in the most corrupt election in American History. It would be nearly a decade until the pressures of his flawed regime and its awkward peace saw further revolt. The Union would be shaken by Grant's March in 1873, and while Grant would have proven an able leader in the third Civil War that came on the heels of this second, he felt required to accept exile for his actions, leaving leadership in the hands of a restored, radicalized and determined Republican Party who would move on the collapsing Confederacy with a mixture of guile, bribery, diplomacy and in the end overwhelming firepower, and the power of a newly ratified and transformative Constiution.
1861-1862: William Seward / Andrew H. Reeder (Republican)
1860: Samuel Houston / Robert C. Winthrop (Constitutional “Southern” Unionist) John C. Breckinridge / Isaac Toucey (Constitutional “Southern” Democratic), Stephen A. Douglas / James A. Seddon (National “Northern” Democratic)
1862-1863: Brvt. Lt. Gen. George B. McClellan / Mj. Gen. John A. McClernand (Independent)
1863-1865: Samuel S. “Sunset” Cox / Horace Greeley (National Unionist) [Acting]
1865-1873: George B. McClellan / Andrew Johnson (National Unionist)
1864: John C. Fremont / Lovell H. Rousseau (Radical Democratic), Franklin Pierce / Clement L. Vallandigham (Straight-Out Democratic), Abraham Lincoln / Ambrose E. Burnside (Republican) [Proscribed 10.64]
1868: Francis P. Blair, Jr. / John T. Hoffman (Independent National Unionist)
1873: George B. McClellan / Andrew Johnson (National Unionist) [Self-Proclaimed]
1872: Charles F. Adams, Sr. / William Saulsbury (Liberal)
1873-1877: Elihu B. Washburne / Daniel E. Sickles (Republican) [Acting, Congressional Appointment]
1877-1881: Daniel E. Sickles / John A. Logan (Republican)
1876: John Cochrane / Cassius M. Clay (Liberal), Lewis Wallace (National “Peace” Democratic)
The Election of President Seward in 1861 proved for a generation of Americans to be an utter disaster. From the Baltimore Uprising and the Secession of Kentucky in the first half of 1861 to the Autumn of 1862 Seward would veer between fierce determination and panic. The Emancipation Proclamation, announced just days before the disastrous battle of South Mountain tore the nation apart even further. After The Peninsula, John Pope and then the bloody battles of Harper's Ferry and Point of Rocks trust in the administration hit new lows. Two months after Joe Johnson's escape from Maryland, Seward and his War Secretary Edward Bates attempted to relive George McClellan from his command. In response the Army of the Potomac mutinied and marched on Washington. Seward was arrested and Reeder was forced to flee to Canada. Supreme leadership in his hands McClellan sought to cement his leadership with the trappings of legality while dispatching Fitz John Porter south to defeat Lee. The Battles of Mine Run and Chancellorsville followed, bloody affairs but form them McClellan thought he could assume a position of strength for Negotiations, and thus accepted the Franco-British-Russian offer of a half-year ceasefire for negotiations. Negotiations though in Halifax, Nova Scotia proved impossible and McClellan passed off control to his chosen Congressional Puppet to sign the de-facto permanent peace with the Confederacy before returning to supreme leadership in the most corrupt election in American History. It would be nearly a decade until the pressures of his flawed regime and its awkward peace saw further revolt. The Union would be shaken by Grant's March in 1873, and while Grant would have proven an able leader in the third Civil War that came on the heels of this second, he felt required to accept exile for his actions, leaving leadership in the hands of a restored, radicalized and determined Republican Party who would move on the collapsing Confederacy with a mixture of guile, bribery, diplomacy and in the end overwhelming firepower, and the power of a newly ratified and transformative Constiution.
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