Election of 1860

In class we learned about the election of 1864. We talked about the events leading up to it, such as Harper's Ferry and Scott v Sanford. We talked about the candidates, and the winner, Lincoln. We also talked about the aftermath of the war, when the southern states seceded from the union. This split of the United States strengthened an ongoing debate about slavery, which split the union and the confederacy apart even more.






The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, at the Capitol, Washington, March 4, 1861.  1861-03-16, Homer, Winslow.

[Reissue, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857, courtesy of National Park Service, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial]

“An Old-Time Photographer and His Reminiscences,” Photographic Times and American Photographer (New York) 25:681 (5 October 1894): 226. In Gary W. Ewer, “The Daguerreotype: An Archive of Source Texts, Graphics, and Ephemera. http://www.daguerreotypearchive.org/texts/P8940004_BRADY_PHOTO-TIMES_1894-10-05.pdf .

Newberry Library. "Our Banner in the Sky." Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North.http://publications.newberry.org/digitalexhibitions/exhibits/show/homefront/introduction/introbanner.

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor
1861

Finkelman, Paul. His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. University of Virginia Press, 1995.