Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Reverdy Johnson: conservative unionist
  • Defender of the republic and the Constitution
  • Johnson and Lincoln: a fragile collaboration
  • Civil War senator and Lincoln nemesis
  • After the war: Republican adversary
  • Part II. Horatio Seymour: Democratic leader
  • Seymour and Lincoln: the early sparring
  • A thorn in Lincoln's side, 1863
  • Democratic champion, 1864
  • Reconstruction dissident and presidential candidate
  • Conclusions.