lincoln second inaugural
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Healing the
wounds
Re-elected• In the midst of the war, President Lincoln faced re-election in 1864.
Re-elected•Fortunately for him, the war was going better and it was fairly obvious the Union was going to win.
Re-elected• Still, he faced a threat
from the “Peace Democrats” who nominated George McClellan, one of Lincoln’s former generals, as their candidate.
Re-elected• The Republicans
=National Union Party in 1864
•Nominated a Democrat, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee as vice-presidential candidate.
Re-elected•Lincoln won re-election
relatively easily with 54% of the popular vote (as opposed to 40% in 1860) and won all but 3 states (the states of the Confederacy did not participate in the election).
Re-elected•What faced Lincoln was the future of a nation forced together by war and his words and actions would go a long way toward deciding how that would be.
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