Badge, George B. McClellan, 1864
date: label: associated date
content: 1864
notes: label: Description
content: George B. McClellan seemed, to some, to offer a political and military solution to the Union’s struggling effort to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War. McClellan, a dashing young general who had led the north’s Army of the Potomac for the first half of the conflict, had repudiated Abraham Lincoln and ran against him as a Democrat in 1864. McClellan had little interest in ending slavery, and hoped to resolve the conflict with as little bloodshed as possible. In the 1864 election he benefited from support by northern Democrats, tired of the war, and some of his former soldiers, but ultimately lost to Lincoln, winning just 45% of the popular vote to Lincoln’s 55%.
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content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Ralph E Becker Collection of Political Americana
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1864.J05
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content: 227739.1864.J05
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content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Badge
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 4.1275 cm