With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February, 1864. The movements recently made throughout ... That the discussion of the Presidential question, already commenced by the friends of Mr. LINCOLN, has developed ...

He was equally ineffective in that arena, garnering only 21 electoral votes versus Lincoln's 212 in the 1864 presidential election. He later served as a single-term governor of New Jersey.