mcclellan for president and george h. pendleton for vice president. george mcclellan was a very popular officer during the first part of the watr. the soldiers absolutely loved mckellan. he was a fairly moderate candidate, he was pro union and pro war, but he was also pro slavery. the vice presidential nominee was the more controversial one. george h. pendalton, who's also depicted in the spielburg movie, pendal pon is one of them. and pendleton was a congressman from ohio. he was ardently pro slavery and also anti-war. and what the democrats hoped they could do, was balance their ticket, we're going to have a pro war candidate for president, and an anti-war known as a copper head as a vice president and that way we can have a broad appeal to a lot of democratic voters. they made one huge miscalculation in their platform. if you read the platform, it's a huge indictment of the lincoln administration. in the fourth plank, they called the war a failure. now keep in mind again, the summer has been going very badly. lincoln thinks he's going to lose, so th

george h. pendleton, if you want it see one of the copper heads who opposes the 13th amendment, pendleton was one of them. he with was a congressman from ohio. pendleton was pro slavely and anti-war. what democrats hope they could do is balance their ticket. we're going to have a pro war candidate for president and have an anti-war known as copper head candidate for vice president and that way we can have a broad appeal to a lot of different democratic voters. the democrats then wrote their platform. and they made one huge miscalculation in their platform. if you head the democratic platform, a huge indictment of the lincoln administration and in the fourth plank they called the war a failure. now keep in mind again, the summer is going very badly. lincoln thinks he had lose so they call the war a failure. well, the timing could not have been worse for the democrats. the very day after they adjourned, william sherman captured atlanta and this capture of atlanta sent a thrill through the north. from that

convened on august 29 in chicago, they chose to nominate george b mcclellan for president and george h pendleton for vice president. george mcclellan had been a very popular army officer in the first two years of the war and was loved by his soldiers. they absolutely adored him. the democrats hoped that they some of theer soldiers' votes that they nominated mcclellan to mcclellan was a fairly moderate candidate who was prounion and pro-war, but he was also proslavery. the vice presidential nominee was the more presidential one. george h pendleton, who is also depicted in the spielberg movie -- if you want to see one of the copperheads who opposed the 13th amendment, pendleton is one of them. he was a congressman from ohio. pendleton was ardently proslavery and also antiwar. what the democrats hoped that they could do was balance their ticket. we are going to have a pro-war candidate for president and an antiwar, known as a copperhead candidate, for vice president. and that way we can have a broad appeal to a lot of different democratic voters. the democrats then wrote the platform. and they made