Throughout the year of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln believed that he would lose the election in November. He admitted in August, “I am going to be beaten, and unless some great change takes ...

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 ...

but managed to unite behind George McClellan in the 1864 election. With a "Union first, then peace" platform, the Democrats appeased both those who desired to defeat the Confederacy at all costs ...

Arizona's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a near-total abortion ban from 1864 could be enforced. The ruling makes Arizona ...

In the 1864 election, McClellan ran as the Democratic nominee against President Lincoln. George Brinton McClellan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated second in his class from ...