"How the Union Pulled Off a Presidential Election During" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Nov 2020 9:39 p.m. PST |
… the Civil War "The United States has never delayed a presidential election. But there was one instance in which some wondered if the country should: when the nation was embroiled in the Civil War. The 1864 election was the second U.S. presidential election to take place during wartime (the first was during the War of 1812). Still, it wasn't the logistics of carrying out a wartime election that made some people want to postpone it. Rather, it was the fact that by the spring of 1864, the Union had no clear path to victory, and many feared President Abraham Lincoln wouldn't win reelection…"
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 ColCampbell  | 29 Nov 2020 9:47 a.m. PST |
And then Major General Sherman presented President Lincoln with Atlanta. Jim |
| Tango01 | 29 Nov 2020 3:14 p.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 30 Nov 2020 6:43 p.m. PST |
Select regiments with reliable voting predictability were sent home "on furlough".
Gee that sounds sort of familiar.  |
| Blutarski | 02 Dec 2020 6:05 p.m. PST |
Relevant question of the moment – What happened in the North after the suspension of habeus corpus? ;-) B |
| Tango01 | 03 Dec 2020 4:08 p.m. PST |
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