VP Beast Butler?

[Wild Bill]

I have no argument with this--which overlooks our original discussion of Butler's propriety in Reconstructing the South, particularly Louisiana. Lincoln and Grant were vowed careful about dropping Butler as a general despite his obvious shortcomings until after the 1864 election when the end of the war was in sight and his political pull in Massachusetts and with the Radicals was lessened by the failure of the Radical Democracy to steal the 1864 nomination from Lincoln