Expatriation of Franklin Pierce The Story of a President And the Civil War

Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity,Franklin Pierce during the Civil War emerged as a majorspokesman for that era's Peace Democrats, opposed toPresident Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpusand in defense of civil liberties. A Northerner with many close Southern friends, includingJefferson Davis the president of the Confederacy and his wife,Varina Davis, Pierce was also thought to be a traitor becauseof such ties and was at one point nearly arrested for suspectedseditious behavior.Boulard, Garry is the author of 'Expatriation of Franklin Pierce The Story of a President And the Civil War' with ISBN 9780595403677 and ISBN 0595403670.