 Mayor Fernando Wood won reelection to a second term, serving from 1860 to 1862.He was one of many New York Democrats who were sympathetic to the Confederacy, called 'Copperheads' by staunch Unionists.In January 1861, Wood suggested to the City Council that New York City secede as the "Free City of Tri-Insula," to continue its profitable cotton trade with the Confederacy.