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.