#126 Fernando Wood: The Scoundrel Mayor

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2011

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Fernando Wood, New York’s mayor at the dawning of the Civil War, was the South’s best friend. Famous during his first term for inciting a police riot, Wood drummed up pro-slavery support amongst his Irish and German constituents and even suggested New York secede from the Union itself! But once the war began and public support for the conflict swelled, the nefarious Fernando tried to have it both ways, both leading the Union cry and undermining it. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 126, Fernando Wood, The Scoundrel Mayor.
0:05.5	Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!
0:07.0	Hey!
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0:21.4	Hello there, welcome to The Bowry Boys New York City History.
0:24.2	This is Greg Young. Tom Myers is not here this week. I will explain to you why.
0:28.6	This is the first part of a trilogy of podcasts that we're going to record
0:32.8	surveying New York City during the American Civil War.
0:35.9	So this week's episode is sort of an introduction to that, so it'll just be me.
0:40.3	But Tom will be joining me for the next two episodes.
0:43.1	This first one will cover the first year of the Civil War, and it's really more of a personality profile.
0:48.7	That is, if you like your personalities to be backstabbing, nefarious, and relentlessly ambitious.
0:55.4	By the time Abraham Lincoln reached the White House in March of 1861, many southern states
1:00.6	had already begun seceding from the Union, and that April came the first attack by Confederate
1:05.6	forces at the Battle of Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1:08.8	The mayor of New York City at that time was Fernando Wood, and in those very pivotal
1:14.0	early months, the leader of the largest, most diverse city in the United States, allied
1:19.2	at first not with the Union Army, but with the Confederacy.
1:23.0	In January of that year, he proposed that all of New York City, including the independent
1:28.2	city of Brooklyn, Richmond County, that future borough of Staten Island, and all of Long Island,
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