WI:Thomas H. Seymour wins 1864 election.

I can't find much information on this man but I am very curious about his politics because he was second in line for the Democratic nomination in 1864. If anyone hear know much about him please help me with question. Lets say that McClellon losses to Seymour in getting the Democratic election and then Seymour goes onto win the Presidential election. What actions might he take in office?
 
clarify:And why would Seymour win?
Lincoln only really loses if Savannah does not fall. (It is Savannah, right - Sherman who pretty much saved Lincoln.)
 
Seymour was Governor of New York, and might have carried that state, as he would in 1868. McClellan only narrowly lost it in '64. However, that isn't enough to beat Lincoln, who still wins 179-54. Elsewhere, there's no reason to think he would do any better than McClellan, and given his "Copperhead" reputation he could easily do worse.
 

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Lincoln only really loses if Savannah does not fall. (It is Savannah, right - Sherman who pretty much saved Lincoln.)

Atlanta, not Savannah.

Elsewhere, there's no reason to think he would do any better than McClellan, and given his "Copperhead" reputation he could easily do worse.

This all depends on Northern public opinion. If the people are "wild for peace" and convinced that continuing the war is both useless and not worth the constant sacrifice of blood and treasure (which they might well have been in the Confederates had been more successful during the 1864 campaign season), they might well elect a Peace Democrat.

A moderate peace Democrat could win if the war turns nasty in 1864, on a platform of "we're going to win eventually, but we can spare everyone a lot of suffering if we negotiate the restoration of the Union rather than have to do it all militarilly", but I don't see someone like Seymour winning.

This is complicated, because the Confederates would not consider any peace agreement that did not acknowledge their complete independence, and the Republicans and abolitionists in the North would not consider any peace agreement that did not include the abolition of slavery. But if a cease-fire were to go into effect before any such negotiations began, would the administration of a Peace Democrat have the ability to resume hostilities after negotiations had failed? Would Republicans be willing to support a war effort that no longer held up abolition as a war aim? How would the U.S.C.T. units respond?
 
I'm not asking how to "create a POD that wins Seymor the election" I'm asking "what actions would he take if elected" regardless of how he won the position. How would he be different from McClellan.
 
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