47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War
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Lincoln's Resignation
On November 1, 1861, General-in-Chief Winfield Scott resigns his post. After 20 years at the head of the US Army, the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War Hero essentially got muscled out by George McClellan. Lincoln appoints Democratic-Pennsylvania lawyer Edwin M. Stanton as theHead of the War Department only a few days after Simon leaves. In a whirlwind appointment process, Edwin is sworn in on January 20 and makes immediate improvements to an awful War Department.
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