WI Woodward Wins in PA 1863

Anaxagoras

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Very bad news for Lincoln. Along with Horatio Seymour in New York, it means that the governors of the two biggest and most important Union states are in the hands of his political enemies. It would give more credibility to the peace wing of the Democratic Party.

It also raises the political credibility of George McClellan, who had publicly endorsed Woodward.
 
Very bad news for Lincoln. Along with Horatio Seymour in New York, it means that the governors of the two biggest and most important Union states are in the hands of his political enemies.

Electoral politics aside, what does this mean for the Union's ability to wage the war? OTL, how did having a Copperhead New York Governor hamper the effort?
 

Anaxagoras

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Electoral politics aside, what does this mean for the Union's ability to wage the war? OTL, how did having a Copperhead New York Governor hamper the effort?

Seymour wasn't a Copperhead, though he flirted with them at times. He basically did everything required of him regarding the war effort (raising troops and supplies and such), while blasting Lincoln's policies on military strategy, conscription, censorship of the press, suspension of habeus corpus, and so forth.
 
Seymour wasn't a Copperhead, though he flirted with them at times. He basically did everything required of him regarding the war effort (raising troops and supplies and such), while blasting Lincoln's policies on military strategy, conscription, censorship of the press, suspension of habeus corpus, and so forth.

Right, always mixing "copperheads" with "peace democrats". :eek: So it sounds like Woodward would simply be piling on here.
 
Woodward made statements earlier according to the book Battle cry of freedom that bacskilly said he wished pa went with the south and that he supported the south's right to have slaves but he had the sense to keep these views private as he ran .
 
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