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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was no election scheduled in the battle-ravaged South in 1864, but there was in the Union ... the breakup might have continued, so that a map of North America might soon have looked like ...

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 ...

Jonathan White talked about the reasons more than 70 percent of Union soldiers voted for Lincoln’s re-election in the 1864 election. Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...