William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state ... It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the war.

Played in Manhunt by Larry Pine (Succession, The French Dispatch), we first meet Seward discussing the end of the war with Stanton. While Stanton advises caution, Seward is eager to celebrate the ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery ... 42 and that when Lincoln’s Secretary of State Henry Seward said that the war would not address slavery, they “did not believe him.” ...