Republican President Abraham Lincoln defeated Democrat challenger Union Gen. George McLellan in the bitterly contested presidential election on this day in history, Nov. 8, 1864.

"This reminds me of a little joke," 1864, a pro-Lincoln cartoon showing the president holding a tiny McClellan, as published in the Sept. 17, 1864, edition of Harper's Weekly.

He won an election in 1864, amid civil war. The 16th American president, Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), sitting and leafing through documents, Washington, D.C. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

Authors and historians talked about the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election. Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, Lincoln's former commander of the ...

That verdict came from the pen of Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, heading into Abraham Lincoln’s reelection campaign of 1864. Most Americans remember Lincoln as a hero and ...

"In 1864," she said. "Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection. And it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in ...

Abraham Lincoln was not popular in York County before and during the Civil War. News Sports GameTimePA Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals. ... For example, in the election of 1864, ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln stands in front of his Washington, D.C., summer retreat, where he lived during a quarter of his presidency, commuting to the White House on horseback. In August 1864 ...

He thought everything was over. It was the summer of 1864, and Abraham Lincoln believed his campaign for re-election amid the Civil War was doomed: The president was to be defeated, his policies ...

Syracuse and the Election of 1864. Published: Nov. 01, ... the paper had declared that the selection of McClellan as their party’s nominee meant that “Abraham Lincoln’s days are numbered.” ...

If ABRAHAM LINCOLN shall be superseded by the nominee of the Democratic party, there would almost surely be an abatement of the war, and a resort to negotiation.