In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

After the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863), taken in conjunction with Grant’s capture of Vicksburg on ...

Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...

On November 7, 1864, Syracuse’s Republican mayor ... the paper had declared that the selection of McClellan as their party’s ...

Bush. Also on this date: In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln won reelection as he defeated Democratic challenger George B.

The Civil War became the first conflict in which arrangements were made for deployed soldiers to vote. Who the Union soldiers would support—President Abraham Lincoln or their former commander, George ...

In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was seeking a second term in office. Election Day was Nov. 8. The Civil War was still going on, and the nation was bitterly divided in their beliefs and in their ...

When President Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864, Republicans throughout the nation printed ballots with pro-war and pro-Union symbols, slogans and song lyrics. In one of the most ...

Abraham Lincoln had been president since 1861; his election was a major factor in the war beginning. During his presidency, ...

Bush. Also on this date: In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln won reelection as he defeated Democratic challenger George B. McClellan. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st state.

On Oct. 31, 1984, Indira Gandhi, India’s Prime Minister for more than 15 years, was assassinated by two of her own security ...

On Nov. 8, 2000, a statewide recount began in Florida, which emerged as critical in deciding the winner of the 2000 ...