A brief review of the Election of 1864 leading to Abraham Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural, which we will examine in class

1. Healing
the
wounds

2. Re-elected
•In the midst of the war,
President Lincoln faced
re-election in 1864.

3. Re-elected
•Fortunately for him, the
war was going better and
it was fairly obvious the
Union was going to win.

4. Re-elected
• Still, he faced a
threat from the
“Peace Democrats”
who nominated
George McClellan,
one of Lincoln’s
former generals, as
their candidate.

5. Re-elected
• The Republicans
=National Union
Party in 1864
• Nominated a
Democrat, Andrew
Johnson of
Tennessee as vice-
presidential
candidate.

6. 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).

7. 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.