History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2160 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1864 and the End
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The idea
Lincoln's greatest liability was the Proclamation and the enlistment of Black soldiers, and the Copperhead Democrats ran George B. McClellan, who seemed likely to win.
In practice
Atlanta falling and Sheridan succeeding in the Shenandoah Valley before the vote.
Where people slip
Lincoln lost only New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky. Lee surrendered at Appomattox on April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, after six hundred thousand deaths.
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