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To: noiseman; JoSixChip; PghBaldy; jeffersondem; rintintin

“You do know the confederates are all dems, right?”

They weren’t, but we like our history to be simple around here.

There were no political parties during the brief life of the Confederacy, and its elected officials were split between former Cotton Whigs and Democrats. One former Whig Confederate being John Tyler, who had also been a US President.

Lincoln’s administration featured a few Democrats. Vice President Andrew Johnson. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Union Generals Benjamin Butler, John Dix, John Cochrane, John McClernand, John Logan, Dan Sickles, William Rosecrans, George McClellan.


151 posted on 06/22/2020 3:51:25 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Pelham

There were no former Republicans in the Confederate government

All the Confederates were either former Democrats or southern Whigs


152 posted on 06/22/2020 3:58:45 PM PDT by rintintin (qu)
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