If You Think 2024 Is a High-Stakes Election Year, Consider 1864. Published May 09, ... And there have been more important elections than the one before us. One look at 1864 proves that point with ...

Ultimately, as many historians point out, Lincoln’s re-election was most likely ensured when General William T. Sherman and his armies, which included over 1,000 men from Syracuse in the NY ...

Throughout the year of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln believed that he would lose the election in November. He admitted in August, “I am going to be beaten, and unless some great change takes ...

He is not going to let the election results destroy the Union and perpetuate slavery. Lincoln’s term would not end until the inauguration of the new president March 4. He had work to do, and a ...

Continued from last week Americans have been casting their votes on a weekday since 1845, when Congress passed a law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election… ...

Authors and historians talked about the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election. Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, Lincoln's former commander of the ...

Of course, Lincoln did win his bid for re-election in 1864, running on the ticket of the National Union Party, which attracted votes from both Republicans and pro-Union Democrats. General William T.

Republican President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat challenger Union Gen. George McLellan in the bitterly contested presidential election on this day in history, Nov. 8, 1864.

The Chagrin Falls Branch Library, 100 E. Orange St., presents "The Election of 1864" from 7-8 p.m. tonight.

Such was the mood music ahead of the Presidential election of 1864 in which the principal antagonists were Abraham Lincoln, the Republican incumbent, and George Brinton McClellan, the Ulster-Scot ...

AP FILE PHOTOThe crowd cheers Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and vice presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis., at a campaign event at the ...

Gen. Hooker on the Election-His War Democracy. Share full article. Nov. 16, 1864. ... See the article in its original context from November 16, 1864, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.