Abraham Lincoln (Southern Victory)

Abraham Lincoln falls into disgrace after his losing the Civil War in the Southern Victory series and, in How Few Remain, he travels through the States and Territories both to rally labour and, later, to swing the Republican Party on a course incorporating an active role in the fight for labourer's rights.

Failing the latter, he joins the Socialist movement, splitting, effectively, the Republican Party with this move.

OTL
Abraham Lincoln of OTL was killed after the American Civil War by a southern zealot; the legend goes that his murderer, John Wilkes Booth, exclaimed upon murdering him the state motto of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis ("Thus always to tyrants!") - the same words Frederic Douglass used in How few Remain upon first crossing the river into Louisville in the wake of the US-troups in the second civil war.

Harry Turtledove used only slightly adapted original speeches of Lincoln in How Few Remain for Lincoln to rally the labourers in order to stress how likely this course of a surviving, defeated Lincoln would have been.

Since the 1960s, it is seen as possible or probable for Abraham Lincoln to also have suffered from Marfan syndrome due to the fact that he was much taller than most men of his day, with long limbs, an abnormally-shaped chest, and loose (lax) joints (based on written descriptions).