Elizabeth Varon talked about the 1864 presidential election from the Confederate point of view. Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan ...

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.

In 1864, 160 years ago next week, Syracuse, and the nation, faced another "consequential" Presidential election.

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That changed as thousands of men remained deployed far from home in the buildup to the 1864 presidential election. From 1862 to 1865, 20 northern states changed mandatory in-person voting laws to ...

An envelope used during the 1864 election to mail a sheet tallying the votes of Civil War soldiers from Ohio's Highland County at a Union Army field hospital in Georgia.

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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.

And, as the 1864 election loomed, he could have given in to demands to withdraw emancipation as a precondition for peace talks with the Confederacy. Henry Raymond, ...

An envelope used during the 1864 election to mail a sheet tallying the votes of Civil War soldiers from Ohio's Highland County at a Union Army field hospital in Georgia. Zayrha Rodriguez / NPR.