By declaring slavery legal, according to the Constitution, in the Dred Scott decision of 1857.
This deepened the divide between the two sections.
Roger Taney
He Was A Commander Chief.
civil war
civil war
No, William H. Taft did not fight in a war. He served as Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt, but did not serve in active combat.
BY Figthing The War
None
He was Commander in chief!
Justice Robert Jackson
The civil war ended with the union army defeating the confederacy.
Salmon P. Chase was part of the Union. He served as the Union's Secretary of the Treasury and was funadmental in financing the Civil War. Near the end of the War, Chase became Chief Justice.
Roger B. Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when President Lincoln entered office in 1861, but died in October 1864. Lincoln nominated Salmon P. Chase to succeed Taney. Chase presided over the Court from December 1864 until his death in May 1873.