WI: President Lincoln shot at Fort Stevens!

As the title suggests, what if this had occurred? Hamlin would have been president for the remainder of the term. Who would the Republicans have nominated for the upcoming election and what effect would this have on the war?
 
Getting oneself eliminated, often unnecessarily, when they are so close to victory.

Cyrus the Younger would be described by post Civil War historians as "Pulling a Lincoln" or that He "Got Lincolned"

It would also evolve to cover less lethal instances like in sports.

Seattle throwing in Superbowl 49 fits the remark.
 
Getting oneself eliminated, often unnecessarily, when they are so close to victory.

Cyrus the Younger would be described by post Civil War historians as "Pulling a Lincoln" or that He "Got Lincolned"

It would also evolve to cover less lethal instances like in sports.

Seattle throwing in Superbowl 49 fits the remark.
Haha, nice. I like that.
 
Back in the nineties, I actually read a short story about what might have happened if Lincoln had been shot at Fort Stevens. The story said Hamlin would have become President, and he would avenge Lincoln's death. Leading not only the defeat of the Confederacy, but eighty years of occupation. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the story, and it was in one of those alternate history paperback books that came out in the nineties.
 
Back in the nineties, I actually read a short story about what might have happened if Lincoln had been shot at Fort Stevens. The story said Hamlin would have become President, and he would avenge Lincoln's death. Leading not only the defeat of the Confederacy, but eighty years of occupation. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the story, and it was in one of those alternate history paperback books that came out in the nineties.

I doubt that there would be eighty years lasting military occupation. It is politically and probably economically too unviable thing. But surely there would be very big will to revebnge.
 
I'm just telling you what I read in the story. In the story, the former Confederacy is still under military occupation during World War II, and the southerners are getting weapons from the Germans to fight the Yankees. Also, I found the book, and the name of the story. The book is called Roads not Taken, tales of alternate history by Gardener Dozois, and the story is called Must and Shall, ironically by Harry Turtledove.
 
I doubt that there would be eighty years lasting military occupation. It is politically and probably economically too unviable thing. But surely there would be very big will to revebnge.

There wasn't all that much lasting effect (except for the murderers themselves) after his OTL assassination. And death in a battle, a misfortune such as might happen to anybody, would probably arouse less indignation rather than more. .
 
Well, one way or the other a President of the United States has been killed, so somehow there will at least be an attempt at making the revenge a bit harsher.

The main question is what happens to the Lincoln/Johnson unity ticket. The National Union Convention was a month before, so with Lincoln dead, you have Hamlin as President for some nine months, but the question is who replaces Lincoln at the top of the ticket - or if they scuttle it all together.

Of course it could also be interesting to see if this somehow makes the Democrats more aggressive themselves in presenting themselves as the Party of Peace and whatnot.
 
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