We Knew That Lincoln Had Been Reelected on Election Night 1864 in the Midst of Civil War!
Channel: Majpalmer
Date: 2020-12-13

Before midnight on Election Day, 8 November 1864, in the midst of the American Civil War, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and his staff celebrated President Abraham Lincoln's reelection. Grant's HQ was in the field at City Point, Virginia, on the James River, not far from the siege lines around Petersburg. Voting and counting had all been done by hand, and the results telegraphed to Grant's HQ late on the night of the election--all in the midst of this country's bloodiest war.