Post-War Confederate Cabinet

Anaxagoras

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Suppose the Confederacy emerges victorious from the Civil War and President Davis decides to reshuffle his cabinet around so that he will have some fresh faces for the remainder of his term.

Who fill the big seats? Secretary of War? Secretary of State? Secretary of the Treasury?
 

Anaxagoras

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I vote General Lee for Secretary of War... (quite obvious choice i guess)

Lee always has a role in Confederate Victory TLs, who almost always have him as President after Davis. Personally, though, I doubt that he would want anything to do with politics. My guess is that he would retire to Arlington House.
 
Lee always has a role in Confederate Victory TLs, who almost always have him as President after Davis. Personally, though, I doubt that he would want anything to do with politics. My guess is that he would retire to Arlington House.

I disagree. Washington was very much the role model for Lee, and Lee very much thought of himself in the role of Washington. He would have considered it his fore-ordained duty to leave the comforts of Arlington, just as Washington left the comforts of Mount Vernon, to answer his country's call. And I think there is little doubt that call would have come.
 
I vote General Lee for Secretary of War... (quite obvious choice i guess)

He might well serve as Secretary of War in the final part of Davis's Administration, although I think General in Chief of the Army would be more likely. But he's gonna be Prez in 1868...no doubt about it.
 
Suppose the Confederacy emerges victorious from the Civil War and President Davis decides to reshuffle his cabinet around so that he will have some fresh faces for the remainder of his term.

Who fill the big seats? Secretary of War? Secretary of State? Secretary of the Treasury?

John C. Breckinridge was doing well as Secretary of War in 1865, so I think he continues in that role during the final part of Davis's administration.

Judah P. Benjamin will figure in there somewhere...either as Secretary of State or of the Treasury. Let's move him to Treasury.

Secretary of State, Albert Gallatin Brown.

Secretary of the Navy, James Dunwoody Bulloch.

Attorney General, John A. Campbell.

Postmaster General, John Reagan (he did such an excellent job with that in OTL, it is virtually impossible that he would be removed postwar).
 

Anaxagoras

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In a related question, who do you think the Confederates would have appointed as their ambassador to the United States? And vice versa?
 
In a related question, who do you think the Confederates would have appointed as their ambassador to the United States? And vice versa?

Since I don't know that much about the CSA's internal politics... I'll say George FitzHugh.

The Union responds by making Frederick Douglass their ambassador. ;)
 
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Since I don't know that much about the CSA's internal politics... I'll say George FitzHugh.

The Union responds by making Frederick Douglass their ambassador. ;)

In that case, the war restarts within days of the arrivals of the ambassadors.

One problem with Douglass as an ambassador is a defeated north may blame africans for the war a la TL-191. Fitzhugh would quite possibly be seen as to provokative to the large neighbor to the north (although a victorious south will probably be convinced that it can win the next war somehow).
 
In that case, the war restarts within days of the arrivals of the ambassadors.

One problem with Douglass as an ambassador is a defeated north may blame africans for the war a la TL-191. Fitzhugh would quite possibly be seen as to provokative to the large neighbor to the north (although a victorious south will probably be convinced that it can win the next war somehow).

Oh, the North would never be insane enough to make Douglass the ambassador. But then, FitzHugh was fairly marginal even in the south; he'd never get to be ambassador either. It was mainly for laughs. :eek:
 
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