We're also being told that this election year is the most important in living memory. But a look back at the year 1864 reveals a nation more divided than it ever was before—or afterward.

In 1864, 160 years ago next week, Syracuse, and the nation, faced another "consequential" Presidential election.

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Four years later, during some of the darkest days of the Civil War, Lincoln believed war weariness might cost him the election, but major Union victories that fall propelled him to victory ...

Then, Lincoln received 5,128 votes, or 47%, in a four-way election. Lincoln easily carried the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its critical 26 electoral votes, taking 51.75% of the popular vote.

With the end of the Civil War looming, Lincoln’s 1864 reelection campaign wanted to encourage voters to stay the course. Franklin D. Roosevelt used the same slogan in 1944 running for his fourth ...

For the presidential election of 1864, the Grant Club of San Francisco produced this ballot dramatizing the Battle of Cherbourg, where the Union sank the CSS Alabama.

Four years ago, millions more voters in the U.S. became familiar with voting by mail. ... photographs and other artifacts to lay out a timeline that begins with the Civil War election of 1864, ...