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The Final Struggles: September 1864 to April 1865

The Final Struggles: September 1864 to April 1865

By what margin did Lincoln capture the nation?

The New York Times led with “VICTORY! Glorious Result Yesterday.” Lincoln won an overwhelming victory in the Electoral College, with 212 to 21. He won the popular vote, nationwide, with a margin of slightly more than 400,000 votes. But perhaps most satisfying of all, Lincoln won the “soldier vote,” the votes made in army camps, by a whopping 116,887 to 33,748. McClellan had once been the commanding general of many of these soldiers, but they chose to go with the man from Illinois.



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