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Category: Elections

Elections
October 7, 2020 Chris Graham

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 …

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September 30, 2020

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 …

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September 22, 2020 Chris Graham A photo collage of images. A man in period clothing wearing a vest with arms crossed, one hand pinching his nose between his eyes in frustration holding a pair of glasses in the other. He's leaning on a road sign pointing in different directions saying: Union, Secession, Republican, Democrat, Slavery and Abolition. Blue Ridge Mountains in the backround.

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 …

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