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Episode 7 | Most Hallowed Ground (1864)
The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union ...
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FROM CHICAGO.; The Election Gratifying Result in the State The Great Conspiracy. THE REBEL RAID.
CHICAGO, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1864. The election is over, and we are devoutly thankful to the Great Disposer of events for the result. Chicago has repudiated the convention which cast a stigma upon ...
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Battlefield success was key in swinging the 1864 US Presidential election in Abraham Lincoln's favour
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 ...
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FROM NEW-ORLEANS.; The Approaching Election Naval Changes Wreck of the John Winthrop Commercial.
They contain but little news. Considerable interest is manifested in the forthcoming State election, and several meetings had been held. Steamship Geo. Cromwell, from New-York, arrived at New ...