Nov. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was ...
Such was the mood music ahead of the Presidential election of 1864 in which the principal antagonists were Abraham Lincoln ... Yet on election day, November 8 1864, McClellan lost.