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British Newspaper References to the Virginia Campaign

and the 1864 Election

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GLASGOW HERALD (Glasgow, Scotland)
February 6, 1864: Issue 7513

 

Article: MR. LINCOLN'S MOVE TO SECURE RE-ELECTION

 

The article discusses the upcoming presidential campaign season and the possible threats to Lincoln's party renomination (by Chase and Hamlin), as well as threats to reelection in the fall (by McClellan). Campaign strategy is also theorized and comparisons are made to the Election of 1860.

THE MORNING POST (London, England)
May 23, 1864; page 5: Issue 28216

 

Article: LATEST FROM AMERICA

 

The article discusses the Overland Campaign's Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. Approximate Union casualty numbers are given, as is Secretary of War Stanton's comments that the battles favored Grant.

THE HUDDERSFIELD CHRONICLE & WEST YORKSHIRE ADVERTISER (West Yorkshire, England)
June 4, 1864; page 10: Issue 742

 

Article: THE WAR IN AMERICA

 

The article discusses the successes and failures of Grant and the Army of the Potomac in the Overland Campaign. It also mentions the severity of the situation and how northerners have wrongly discounted the rebel army as being demoralized and ready to concede.

THE BLACKBURN STANDARD (Blackburn, England)
November 23, 1864: Issue 1556

 

Article: RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN

 

The article discusses the negative implications of Lincoln's continued leadership in America; it is viewed poorly because of the National Union Party's pledge of unconditional surrender, in a war which many in Europe want to see quickly end. 

THE DERBY MERCURY (Derby, England)
November 23, 1864: Issue 6921

 

Article: PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S RE-ELECTION

 

A scathing editorial on the folly of the American people in re-electing Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency. 

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