A conspiracy led by this former V.P. aimed to set up an independent nation in the Mississippi Valley
[DOC] [TLE] American Civil War facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] Delegates from these states set up the provisional government of the .... and 
statesmen continually emphasized their limited war aims, and portrayed 
themselves .... was too much led Lincoln to remove McClellan from the latter post 
in March 1862.