The Election of 1864 One contentious election of the 19th century that produced a significant output of political prints was the 1864 wartime contest between Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln and ...

Ahead of Abraham Lincoln's 1864 election triumph, his chances of victory appeared slim and the nation was gripped in civil war. Despite the turmoil posed by this, the vote went ahead, despite ...

Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, President Lincoln’s former commander of the Army of the Potomac. Her talk took place at symposium ...

When soldiers living in Civil War encampments wanted to cast their vote for Republican incumbent Abraham Lincoln or Democrat George McClellan in the 1864 election, most were able to follow the ...

The Chagrin Falls Branch Library, 100 E. Orange St., presents "The Election of 1864" from 7-8 p.m. tonight. Join Paul Goebbel at the Chagrin Falls Branch Library as he talks about the bloodiest ...

TROY — The 1864 presidential election marked the first time that New York's soldiers could vote by absentee ballot, and allegations of fraud were rampant. The Gettysburg National Military Park ...

The election of 1812, in which incumbent President James Madison of Virginia defeated DeWitt Clinton of New York, holds that distinction. In 1864 it wasn’t the logistics of carrying out a ...

Although Lincoln could have named a nominee prior to the 1864 election, he could not have filled the open Supreme Court seat prior to that event. When Taney died, Congress had been in recess since ...

On November 7, 1864, Syracuse’s Republican mayor ... their tension and anxiety related to the impending Presidential election, state law forbade the sale of alcohol within a quarter mile ...

Idaho partisan politics in October 1864, in the midst of the long and bloody Civil War, were as lively as they have been in any election year since, and were certainly different. Idaho City’s ...