Oh, history!

[novapsyche]

If Lincoln had kept his initial Vice President. How differently Reconstruction might have gone!

In other trivia, the accordion and the lawnmower were patented within a year of each other.

Comments

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Gee, he looks like a nice guy, doesn't he?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Lots of people from that time period looked like that. No one smiled for the camera back then.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

um. I wasn't being sarcastic. I really think he looks like a nice guy.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

*smile* Hard to tell, sometimes, on these Internets!

[brendand.livejournal.com]

I thought you were serious, FWIW. :)

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

If the Republicans nominate Hamlin in 1864, there's no coalition party, which means McClellan has a much better chance of winning, which would have put a party into power that wanted to end the war and let the South continue slavery.

That said, Hamlin would have been infinitely better than Johnson.

"I will not deny that it is gratifying to me to know that there is a general belief held by our true men, that had a power that I neither sought nor desired fallen upon me, I would not have deserted the men who had conferred that power upon me." - Hannibal Hamlin, after calling for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about that, as the Union had a series of wins in the battlefield near election time, which would have lent more people to vote for the Union ticket.

But the vast majority of my understanding of American history lies after the War was decided, so I'm still piecing together my own history of the early formation of the country.