Drinking with the Republicans by Mark Will-Weber

Author:Mark Will-Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621575474
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2016-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

In one of his early elections, an 1876 contest for a U.S. congressional seat, McKinley had to fight off accusations that he had frequently been intoxicated during the Civil War. (McKinley rose to the officer ranks after he heroically risked his life at the Battle of Antietam, resupplying Union soldiers under intense fire at what is now known as the Burnside Bridge.) Two facts made McKinley’s defense against these political snipes somewhat tricky. One, there had been another officer—a John McKinley (no relation to the future president, but also in the 23rd Ohio Regiment)—who did, in fact, get notoriously blasted. Soldiers fighting in the same theater of war might have easily associated the name McKinley with drinking binges.

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