American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Lincoln re-elected (1864)
On the American Civil War map as “The election of 1864”
8 Nov 1864 — In the middle of a civil war, the Union votes. Lincoln takes 55% and 212 electoral votes; soldiers vote overwhelmingly for the man who will not let them stop short of victory. No nation had held a free election in wartime like it.
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- Turning point
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- 1864 election and March to the Sea (chapter 10 of American Civil War)
- Atlas
- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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