The presidential election of 1864 had no precedent. Waged during a Civil War, both the Democratic and relatively young Republican party suffered from fissures on platform. Abraham Lincoln was convinced that he would lose the election to George McClellan, a general whom he had fired twice.
Find out why Lincoln was wrong during this presentation from the experts at James A. Garfield National Historic Site.
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