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Hail! Columbia

This piece is played as an introduction for the Vice President

Lincoln's first vice president was Hannibal Hamlin, who had not wanted the job. Having traded his influential Senate seat for a traditionally powerless office, he hoped to be assigned some important function in the Lincoln government, but he was kept well in the background. Frustrated by this inactivity, he enlisted as a private in the Maine Coast Guard and invoked public criticism by taking his place among the ranks during the 1864 summer encampment at Kittery.

Barbara Hughett, "Civil War Cards", Atlas Editions, Inc., 1963

Andrew Johnson refused to abide by Tennessee's decision to seceed, retaining his Senate seat and supporting measures suppressing the rebellion. He was selected as Lincoln's running mate because of his staunch support of the Union, and he assumed the presidency after Lincoln's assassination in 1865.

Patricia Faust, Editor, "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War", 1986