Battling Ballots: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
The United States presidential election of 1864 would prove to be just as important a turning point in the American Civil War …
Category: Elections
Battling Ballots: Absentee Voting and the Civil War
In this installment of our Battling Ballots series, when the United States is in the middle of a Civil War and a …
Battling Ballots: Should we stay or should we go now? North Carolina votes on secession.
Perhaps it was like candidate endorsements from advocacy organizations or newspaper editorial boards today. But in 1861, voters in North Carolina themselves …