Throughout the year of 1864, President Abraham ... to vanquish Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, and to reunite the Union. No other country had ever held an election in the middle of a civil ...

Such was the mood music ahead of the Presidential election of 1864 in which the principal ... the president of the Confederate States of America, was adamant that the South would not give up ...

Booth was a Confederate ... Lincoln's reelection in 1864 on a platform advocating emancipation, Booth became increasingly unstable. He called Lincoln "a tool of the North" and his election a ...

On the battlefield, he consistently overestimated the strength of his Confederate foes ... votes versus Lincoln's 212 in the 1864 presidential election. He later served as a single-term governor ...