Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, Executive Producer of 1865.

At the end of Episode 7, President Ulysses S. Grant declares martial law and wages war

against the Ku Klux Klan, a decision that sets the table for the upcoming presidential

election.

Coming up in Episode 8, the story jumps forward in time past this election of 1872.

But there is some important history in between.

This week we're going to again fill in those gaps with an episode of another of my podcasts,

American Elections Wicked Game, an in-depth look of all 59 U.S. presidential elections.

In 1872, the Reform Republicans, properly known as the Liberal Republicans, turned on President

Grant, abandoned the Republican Party and joined forces with the Democrats.

To defeat Grant at the ballot box, this coalition nominated a New York newspaperman, Republican,

named Horace Greeley.

During the election, like he had done in 1868, Grant took his cues from George Washington,

staying silent during the contest.

But Horace Greeley launched an aggressive campaign, attacking Grant's policies as sailing

his character and accusing him of corruption.

Once again, the election was a referendum on reconstruction.

Would the American people stand by the hero of Appamanix, or would they vote to turn

back the clock on social progress?

Please enjoy this episode from the podcast American Elections Wicked Game, 1872, Greeley

vs Grant, progress under siege, 1865 returns soon with episode 8.

It's spring, 1854, at Fort Humboldt, a military outpost on the northern coast of California.

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