4. Re-elected
• Still, he faced a
threat from the
“Peace Democrats”
who nominated
George McClellan,
one of Lincoln’s
former generals, as
their candidate.
5. Re-elected
• The Republicans
=National Union
Party in 1864
• Nominated a
Democrat, Andrew
Johnson of
Tennessee as vice-
presidential
candidate.
6. Re-elected
• Lincoln won re-election
relatively easily with 54% of
the popular vote (as opposed to
40% in 1860) and won all but
3 states (the states of the
Confederacy did not
participate in the election).
7. Re-elected
• What faced Lincoln was the
future of a nation forced
together by war and his
words and actions would go
a long way toward deciding
how that would be.