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 ...

On November 7, 1864, Syracuse’s Republican mayor ... assuage their tension and anxiety related to the impending Presidential election, state law forbade the sale of alcohol within a quarter ...

During his presidency, the war raged on and at the time of the 1864 election, the outcome of the Civil War was still in doubt ...

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 ...

About 2.9 million Americans residing outside the U.S. are expected to take part in Tuesday's election, Vote From Abroad reported.

Incredibly, the state has participated in every US Presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil War. It was unable to vote in the first US Presidential election in ...

The advices from New-York show that among many of the merchants the belief in the possibility of peace being attained by the election of ... that if worsted in the Presidential struggle the ...