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Lizzie Harvey
November 8, 2010
Election of 1864 Storyboard
In November of 1864, as election
day approached, the nation was
in the midst of a war unlike any
the country had ever seen.
The American Civil war was
the bloodiest war fought on
American soil with an
estimated 364,511 killed.
Image:
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/l
eefoundation/civilwar/1863/march/first-blacktroops-combat.htm requires
permission
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/18
64/Overview-1864-1.htm
Image:
http://blogs.canoe.ca/cano
edossier/musing/imagesof-war/ image taken from
library of congress.
Text: Anne Leland,
American War and Military
Operations
Casualties: Lists and
Statisticshttp://www.fas.org
/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.p
df
The eleven southern states that had
seceded from the Union would not be
participating in the upcoming election.
For those who remained members of
the United States, the election was of
momentous importance.
Image: Wikimedia – permission
Text: “The Presidential Elections,”
Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1864/O
verview-1864-1.htm
It was not just a presidential
election, but an election for
peace, an election for unity, and
an election for freedom.
Image:
http://americandigest.org/mtarchives/cat_intellectually_ins
ane.php
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/18
64/Overview-1864-1.htm
General George B. McClellan
was running for the Republican
Party. McClellan served as
general-in-chief of the army
until 1964 and promised to take
a more aggressive stance on
the war if elected.
Image:
http://www.highlightskids.co
m/Stories/NonFiction/NF0203
_lincolnsBabysitter.asp
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1
864/Overview-1864-1.htm
Abraham Lincoln was running for
re-election as a member of the
Democratic Party.
Image:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/j
b/civil/jb_civil_lincoln2_1_e.html
Text: “The Presidential Elections,”
Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1864
/Overview-1864-1.htm
In order to remain in the white
house, Lincoln, and other
Democrats in Washington D.C.
had to plan a campaign that best
appealed to the needs of a
nation at war.
Both candidates began to target
their election towards the Union
Soldiers.
Soldiers in the field had a
tremendous personal
investment with the election
because they were risking their
lives every day for their country
and wanted a president who
could lead them to victory.
One of the main strategies used by
both parties was to appeal to their
military capabilities. Past victories
and defeats were used as examples
of their powers as military leaders,
and their opponent’s weakness.
Image:
http://niahd.wm.edu/index.php
?browse=image&id=33930
Image:
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.
org/image.php?rec=463&img=
1065 requires permission
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1
864/Overview-1864-1.htm
Image: Wikimedia (Lincoln and
McClellan meeting with troops)
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/18
64/Overview-1864-1.htm
Text: “The Presidential Elections,”
Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1864/
Overview-1864-1.htm
Campaign cartoons like the one
shown here were aimed at
making fun of the opponent’s
military capabilities. Lincoln and
McClellan put a great deal of
effort into gaining the soldier
vote. Now they just needed to
find a way for them to be able
to vote.
Image: Harpweek
Prior to 1864, only one state had
an established system of absentee
voting. People had to travel to
public polling places to cast their
votes.
Some politicians thought that preprinted paper ballots should be
handed out amongst soldiers and
then mailed back home.
Image:
http://timpanogos.wordpress.co
m/2007/11/06/ requires permission
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/1
864/Overview-1864-1.htm
Text: Jonathan W. White,
“Canvassing the Troops: The
Federal Government and the
Soldiers' Right to Vote” Civil War
History 50, no. 3 (2004): 291.
Image:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/exh
ibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?ke
y=1267&exkey=696&pagekey=72
2 – permission if cited.
Text: Mr. Lincoln and New York,
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.or
g/inside.asp?ID=101&subjectID=4
Governor Horatio Seymour, and
some others, worried that
absentee ballots would lead to
fraud. Seymour worked to
prevent the Senate from
passing an absentee voting bill.
Despite its opposition, the bill was
passed in time for the November
8th election day. Union soldiers
across the country were able to
cast their votes.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, a private from
Wisconsin, was one such soldier
who was given the privilege of the
vote while still at war.
Image: sonofthesouth.net
Image: examiner.com – no
permission
Text: Mr. Lincoln and New York,
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.
org/inside.asp?ID=101&subjectID
=4
Image:
Text: Mr. Lincoln and New
York,
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyor
k.org/inside.asp?ID=101&subje
ctID=4
Text: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An
Artilleryman’s Diary, ed. Wisconsin
History Commission (Chicago:
Alexander Street Press, 2009),
395.
“To-day is the day granted
Americans to exercise their
highest rights as members of a
republican government, the right
of suffrage, each man having a
voice in the choice of his ruler.
And thanks to the just laws of
Wisconsin, this right is not
withheld from us while far away
from home battling for the right… I
cast my first ballot, a straight
through Union ticket. I am seven
days too young, but I voted with a
clear conscience, thinking I had
earned my right.” – Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, November 8, 1864.
Image:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/coll
ection/cwp/item/89708445/
(stock image of union soldiers)
Others were less optimistic.
One confederate General
being held in a Union prisoner
of war camp recorded his
observations of voting day in
his journal.
“I heard two of the privates talking
today. One said he wished he was
at home to vote for McClellan; the
other said he tried to vote for
McClellan but they found how he
intended to vote and, because he
was under twenty-one when he
enlisted, told him they reckoned he
didn’t have a vote. Such a farce of
an election.” Henry Clay Dickinson
Image:
Image: http://www.nps.gov/ande/
(stock image of a prison camp)
Text: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An
Artilleryman’s Diary, ed.
Wisconsin History Commission
(Chicago: Alexander Street Press,
2009), 395.
Text: Henry C. Dickinson, ed.,
Diary of Capt. Henry C.
Dickinson, C.S.A. Morris
Island, 1864-1865 (Chicago:
Alexander Street Press, 2009),
189.
http://www.richwooders.co
m/net/nancy/hart.htm (stock
image of a confederate
soldier) requires permission
Text: Henry C. Dickinson, ed.,
Diary of Capt. Henry C. Dickinson,
C.S.A. Morris Island, 1864-1865
(Chicago: Alexander Street Press,
2009), 189.
Lincoln went on to win the
election with 78% of soldiers
voting for him. Whether this
overwhelming majority was due
to fraud or genuine support from
soldiers like Jenkin Jones is
unclear.
On March 4,1865, Lincoln
delivered his second inaugural
speech to the nation. In it he
expressed a desire to bring an
end to the war and reunite the
nation. He later succeeded in
leading the Union Army to
victory.
Today, absentee voting is
nationally recognized and it seen
as inherent part of voting right.
However, absentee voting would
not exist without Civil War and the
efforts to gain soldiers the right to
vote.
Image:
http://www.presidentelect.org/
e1864.html
Image:
http://civilwargazette.wordpress.
com/2008/03/04/march-4-1864lincolns-second-inauguraladdress/
Text: “Abraham Lincoln: Second
Inaugural Address”
http://www.bartleby.com/124/p
res32.html
Image:
Text: “The Presidential
Elections,” Harpweek,
http://elections.harpweek.com/18
64/Overview-1864-1.htm
http://gastonyr.com/page/2/
Text:
Jonathan W. White, “Canvassing
the Troops: The Federal
Government and the Soldiers'
Right to Vote” Civil War History
50, no. 3 (2004): 291.