Tag: Clement L Vallandigham
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Clement L. Vallandigham
Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. Opinions abound about this guy, but I think the nickname Lincoln gave him describes him best: the Wily Agitator. An Ohio-born lawyer and Congressman with Southern ancestry, Vallandigham took it upon himself to lead a crusade against the anti-slavery Republican Party before and during the war and…