Vote for impeachment

Should Lincoln be impeached and convicted?

  • Yes - Impeach and Remove from Office

    Votes: 12 29.3%
  • No - Impeach and Acquit so that he remains in office

    Votes: 29 70.7%

  • Total voters
    41

JJohnson

Banned
In my timeline, Lincoln is likely to face impeachment for his conduct of the war, now that the US lost the Civil War. Question is, should he be convicted? The Senate is 36-14 Republican/Democrat.
 
If the war had been lost before the 1864 election, Lincoln would not have been re-elected, so the new (undoubtedly Democratic) House would not have the opportunity to impeach him before he left office.

And it's very hard for me to see both (1) the war going well enough for him to win in November 1864 and (b) a subsequent loss.

(In OTL, after Atlanta, after Mobile Bay, after Sheridan's victory in the Valley, Lincoln still got only 55 percent.)
 
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Johnson is VP, and it's 1867, after the Democrats took the House in '66.


The South outmaneuvered them at Atlanta/Peachtree Creek; the south also enlisted freed slaves to overcome the manpower gap.

So the North was simply outgeneraled? In that case, I agre with David T. I think you would need a double POD of Grant dying early in the war, maybe at Shiloh? And Stonewall Jackson not dying at Chancellorsville. In any case, I see Lincoln losing the election, as opposed to being impeached.
 

JJohnson

Banned
So the North was simply outgeneraled? In that case, I agree with David T. I think you would need a double POD of Grant dying early in the war, maybe at Shiloh? And Stonewall Jackson not dying at Chancellorsville. In any case, I see Lincoln losing the election, as opposed to being impeached.

In my timeline, Jackson, Stuart, and Cleburne all survived. I timed the attack on Atlanta so that it was happening at the election so that the northern public would more likely vote for him.
 
In my timeline, Jackson, Stuart, and Cleburne all survived. I timed the attack on Atlanta so that it was happening at the election so that the northern public would more likely vote for him.

That strikes me as too late to prevent a Union victory. IMHO, the war would need to turn in the favour of South before Gettysburg.
 
Impeach Lincoln to make Johnson President? What had drunk Republicans before decided that? They didn't remove Johnson to make Wade President, so I find idea to convict the first Republican President to have a Southern Democrat President totally crazy.
 
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