We're also being told that this election year is the most important in living memory. But a look back at the year 1864 reveals a nation more divided than it ever was before—or afterward.

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 ...

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 ...

The law was designed to prevent Election Day from falling on Nov. 1, which some Christians observe as All Saints Day. The […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 35°F.

In 1864, 160 years ago next week, Syracuse, ... - The Wieting Opera House in Clinton Square in Syracuse was the sight of numerous important events leading up to the 1864 election, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In U.S. politics, a contrived or spontaneous event influencing a presidential election has been termed an "October Surprise." Like the upcoming election only weeks away, the election of 1864 was ...

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.

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.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.