WAR AND POLITICS: THE DIVDED NORTH
“THE COMMITTEE”
NORTH IS NOT POLITICALLY MONOLITHIC
DEMOCRATS RECEIVED 44% OF VOTE IN ’60 IN FREE STATES
DEMOCRATS NOT MONOLITHIC
“COPPERHEADS”
OPPOSED TO THE WAR
DRAFT OF MILITIA
EMANCIPATION
TOTAL WAR (DESTROY
THE SOUTH/RESTORE UNION)
“THE COSTITUTION AS
IT IS, THE UNION AS IT WAS”
WAR AND POLITICS
“COPPERHEADS”
MOSTLY DEMOCRATS
EASTERN PENN.
“BUTTERNUT”
DISTRICTS
OHIO
INDIANA
CATHOLIC
GERMANS
IRISH
ACCUSED OF ABETTING
REBELLION BY RADICAL RPUBLICANS
POLITICS AND WAR
24 SEPT LINCOLN
SUPENDS HABEAS CORPUS/ SUBJECTS TO MARTIAL LAW “ALL PERSONS DISCOURAGING
VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENTS…”
REPUBLICANS ACCUSED
OF POLITICAL POGROM
“WAR DEMOCRATS”
MANY BECOME
REPUBLICANS
SUPPORT WAR
RESTORATION OF UNION
RETURN TO STATUS QUO ANTEBELLUM
SPLIT OVER EMANCIPATION
WAR AND POLITICS
REPUBLICANS
RADICALS
ABOLITION
DESTRUCTION OF REBELS
RECONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH
MODERATES
EMANCIPATION
SUPPORT WAR
LESS SANG FROID ABOUT SOUTH
MILITARY
MANY PROMINENT
SOLDIERS ARE “WAR DEMOCRATS”
TARGETS FOR RADICAL REPUBLICANS
WAR AND POLITICS
BALL’S BLUFF 21
OCTOBER ’61
CHARLES P. STONE,
B.G. USA
CHARLES E. BAKER, COL. USA
MORE THAN HALF OF BAKER’S BDE ARE CASUALTIES
BAKER KILLED
DECEMBER ’61
JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR
CHAIRED BY RADICAL REPUBLICAN BENJ. WADE
FOE OF INCOMPITANCE
AND CORRUPTION?
POLITICAL PLOY TO RID RANKS OF DEMOCRATIC
GENERALS?
STONE ARRESTED FEB ’62
HELD 189 DAYS W/OUT CHARGES OR TRIAL
NEVER HOLDS RESPONSIBLE POST AFTER
POLITICS AND WAR
GEORGE BRINTON
MCCLELLAN
USMA ’46 2/59
GIVEN COMMAND OF
UNION ARMY AT 35 YEARS OLD IN 1861
“YOUNG NAPOLEON”
“WAR DEMOCRAT”
DISLIKED SLAVERY
DISLIKED ABOLITIONISTS EVEN MORE
DISLIKED REPUBLICANS
LINCOLN “THE ORIGINAL GORILLA”
MCLELLAN TRIED TO CONDUCT THE WAR ACCORDING TO HIS OWN
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
POLITICS AND WAR
ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE A POLITICAL FIGUREHEAD
COULD NOT CONDUCT THE WAR AS A REPUBLICAN
LECTURES LINCOLN ON MAKING EMANCIPATION A WAR AIM
OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS
CLEMENT L.
VALLANDINGHAM
“PEACE DEMOCRAT”
U.S. CONGRESSMAN
FROM OHIO
JEFFERSONIAN
VOTED OUT OF OFFICE
1863
MADE SPEECHES TO
SYMPATHETIC CROUDS
REPUBLICANS FIGHTING
FOR ABOLITION, NOT UNION
“MAKE AN
ARMISTICE…WITHDRAW YOUR ARMY FROM SECEDED STATES.”
NORTHWEST
CONFEDERACY
OHIO, INDIANA ILLINOIS
NATIONAL BANK
M.G. A. BURNSIDE
ARRESTS VALLANDINHAM
AFTER A SPEECH
WAR”WICKED, CRUEL
AND UNNECESSARY”
“A WAR FOR THE
FREEDOM OF BLACKS AND THE ENSLAVEMENT OF WHITES.”
ARRESTED AT NIGHT
CONVICTED TO
IMPRISONMENT FOR DURATION
OUTCRY’S FROM
COPPERHEADS
OHIO,INDIANA, ILLINOIS
ANXIETY FOR REPUBLICANS
ANGER FROM WAR DEMOCRATS
PROBLEM FOR LINCOLN
BANISHMENT TO THE SOUTH
SOUTHERNERS ASSURED HIM PEACE FOR INDEPENDENCE
CAMPAIGNS FOR OHIO GOVERNOR FROM CANADA
OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS
RICHARD YATES
GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS
1860 BROUGHT IN A DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN THE ILLINOIS
LEGISLATURE
LOWER HOUSE-RESOLUTION CALLING FOR ARMISTICE, RETRACTION
OF “WICKED, INHUMAN, UNHOLY”
EMANCIPATION PROCALAMATION
OHIO, INDIANA, ILLINOIS
LEGISLATURES INDAINA
& ILLINOIS-BILL TO TAKE CONTROL OF TROOPS AWAY FROM THE GOVERNORS
YATES USED OBSCURE
CLAUSE IN STATE CONSTITUTION TO PROROGUE LEGISLATURE IN ’63
INDIANA’S OLIVER P.
MORTON PURSUADED REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS TO ABSENT THEMSELVES-LACK OF QUORUM
RAN INDIANA FOR 2
YEARS W/OUT LEGISLATURE
SECURED LOANS,
CONTRIBUTIONS ETC.
“SO ITS ONE, TWO THREE, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
STATUS QUO ANTEBELLUM?
RESTORE THE UNION…ANY UNION?
EMANCIPATION?
PUNISH THE SOUTH?
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
I DEEM IT PROPER TO
SAY THAT THE FIRST PURPOSE ASSIGNED TO THE FORCES …WILL…BE TO REPOSSESS THE
FORTS, PLACES AND PROPERTY WHICH HAVE BEEN SEIZED FROM THE UNION…THE UTMOST
CARE WILL BE OBSERVED…TO AVOID ANY DEVASTATION, ANY DESTRUCTION OF, OR
ANYNTERFERENCE WITH PROPERTY, OR ANY DISTURBANCE OF PEACEFUL CITIZENS… A.
LINCOLN, 15 APRIL 1861
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
“MY PARAMOUNT OBJECT
IN THE STRUGGLE IS TO SAVE THE UNION.
IF I COULD SAVE THE UNION WITHOUT FREEING ANY SLAVE, I
WOULD DO IT; AND IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING SOME AND LEAVING OTHERS ALONE, I
WOULD ALSO DO THAT.” A. LINCOLN, AUGUST 1862