Sunday, November 9, 2014

November 10, 1864---100 miles from Washington D.C. they ask, "Did Lincoln win re-election?"



NOVEMBER 10, 1864:      

The Richmond Times-Dispatch comments on the expectation that Abraham Lincoln will win re-election in the North:

[O]ur men . . . still remain [ ] in momentary expectation of a shouted salute, wherewith it is expected the Yankees will greet the first news of Lincoln's success at the Northern polls. It was not thought they will wait for official returns as to the general result of the election, but will bang away with their double-shotted guns over any important success. Our men [are] prepared to hurl back a defiance in kind . . .  the result of the election in the principal cities must be known to-day.