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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War.Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
The elections were held during the American Civil War. Lincoln would be assassinated shortly into his second term. In the presidential election, National Union Party nominee President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democratic nominee former General George B. McClellan. [5]
During the war, blockade runners delivered the Confederacy 60 percent of its weapons, 1/3 of the lead for its bullets, 3/4 of ingredients for its powder, and most of the cloth for its uniforms, [245] lengthening the Civil War by two years and costing an additional 400,000 lives of soldiers and civilians on both sides.
On November 6, 1860, voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President, in an act that that led to the Civil War. But Lincoln’s actual ...
(a) The states in rebellion did not participate in the election of 1864. (b) One Elector from Nevada did not vote (c) Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat, and after 1869 was a Democrat. The Republican Party called itself the National Union Party to accommodate the War Democrats in this election.
Creation of a "Union Party" was a frequent proposition in the decade preceding the American Civil War. During the presidency of Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster and others envisioned the Union Party as a vehicle for political moderates to support the Compromise of 1850 against attacks from abolitionists and secessionist Fire-Eaters.
A little more than five months after President Abraham Lincoln was reelected in 1864, he was assassinated by confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's preservation of a united country ...
Lincoln, a Republican, had selected Johnson, a Southern Democrat, to run on a unity ticket in 1864. So during the 1868 election, Johnson tried to earn the Democratic nomination but lost to Horatio ...