Welcome to ‘Imagine if?’, the Alternate History Podcast. I’m your host, Brody Burton, and this is our episode on an alternate American Civil war. The American Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American history. 620,000 people died in the war, compared to the 644,000 total for all other conflicts in American history combined. The Revolution, War of 1812, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, all are overshadowed by the incredibly high casualty rates of the Civil War. The conflict grew out of the Republican Party’s candidate Abraham Lincoln winning the White House, which caused South Carolina to secede on December 20th, 1860. In between January 1st and February 1st of 1861, seven states, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and finally Texas seceded. The incumbent president, James Buchanan, proved highly incapable and incompetent at keeping the states in the Union. This episode explores what would of happened had Abraham Lincoln succumbed to his 'melancholy' spells, what modern historians equate to Depression

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