Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . vil is likelyto result from the present little occurred at the Lincoln-Bowman-Straughn conferenceis unknown, but the tone of Bowmans telegram seems toindicate that he had brought Hicks around to his way ofthinking. This probably took some doing. Although Bowmanreplaced the abolitionists son as chief recruiting officer forMarylands black men, the change does not seem to have beenmade in order to replace a radical with a conservative. Birneyleft Maryland for South Carolina, where he was to commandtwo Negro regiments. For a man of abolitionist leanings t
Abraham Lincoln's cabinet . vil is likelyto result from the present little occurred at the Lincoln-Bowman-Straughn conferenceis unknown, but the tone of Bowmans telegram seems toindicate that he had brought Hicks around to his way ofthinking. This probably took some doing. Although Bowmanreplaced the abolitionists son as chief recruiting officer forMarylands black men, the change does not seem to have beenmade in order to replace a radical with a conservative. Birneyleft Maryland for South Carolina, where he was to commandtwo Negro regiments. For a man of abolitionist leanings thishardly constituted banishment to Siberia. Likewise, as Tate asAugust 19, 1864, Senator Hicks wrote Abraham Lincolncomplaining that Henry Winter Davis & his retinue aredoing us [political] damage, but not equal to Hon. and Colonel Bowman. Clearly Hicks and Bowmanremained factional enemies, but Bowman may have broughtHicks to Straughns support Holliday Hicks was nothing if not flexible. He had. From the Lincoln National Life Foundation Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) was a border-statepolitician. Born in Kentucky to a family that becameprominent in Democratic political circles, he livedlater in Missouri and Maryland. Famous today for hisenthusiasm for Negro colonization, Blair was aveteran of anti-slavery politics long before HenryWinter Davis evidenced much concern on the served as counsel for Dred Scott and helped JohnBrown get counsel too. By 1864, however, he ledMarylands conservative Unionists, and Winter Davisled the radicals. LINCOLN LORE been a Democrat, a Whig, and a Know Nothing (it was on thelast ticket that he ran for governor and won, to become theGovernor of Maryland when the Civil War broke out). Hickswas the son of a slaveholder and a slaveholder himself, but hedid much to keep Maryland in the Union. Nevertheless, hewas a lukewarm nationalist at most and identified senti-mentally with the border slave states. Mrs. Baker quotes
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