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1860 (Southern) Democratic Party Platform
1860 (Southern) Democratic Party Platform Resolved, That ...

1860 Democratic National Convention
By the time the 1860 Democratic National Convention began in Charleston, ...

1860 Democratic Party Platform
1860 Democratic Party Platform 1. Resolved, That ... of the general government. June 18, 1860.

1860 Republican Convention
Going into the Republican Convention of 1860, William Seward was the focus of ... no such attack existed in the 1860 platform. They denounced the acti

Albert Sidney Johnston
... indictment. Johnston remained in Utah until 1860. It was after this successful mission ...

Alexander Stephens
... Vice-Presidential candidate in The Election of 1860). He graduated in 1832 and moved ... in Charleston, South Carolina in April, 1860. Northern in

Battle of Ball's Bluff
... Senate in 1859 (service began in 1860) for his hard work at keeping ...

Civil War Firsts
... the breach-loading Spencer, was introduced in 1860. What can be said is the ...

Committee of Thirteen
... United States. Proposed on December 6, 1860 by Senator Lazarus Whitehead Powell Democrat ... the Federal Constitution. On mdy:December 10, 1860 th

Convention of Seceding States
... Deep South in The Election of 1860. Young and charismatic, he was still ... only succumbing to secession early in 1860. He had experience dealing

Don Carlos Buell
... he was brevetted major. In my:December, 1860 Secretary of War John Floyd sent ...

Edmund Ruffin
... by our Northern brethren." In June, 1860 Edmond Ruffin published a futuristic novel, ... Abraham Lincoln winning the election of 1860, followed by

Election of 1864
... the failed Democratic Convention there in 1860. Western Democrats tended towards the pro-peace ...

Election of 1876
... Republicans had been in power since 1860 with the exception of Andrew Johnson ...

Fire-eaters
... to gain Southern independence. At the 1860 Democratic National Convention held in Charleston, ...

Fort Sumter
As early as date:October 1, year:1860, the Ordinance Officer in Charleston was ... increased his fears. image:charlestonharbor_sm.jpgOn date:November

George McClellan
... The were married on May 22, 1860 in New York. His job with ...

George Thomas
... Comanche arrow during a charge in 1860. Following the election, Thomas took a ...

Georgia Declaration of Causes
... entered the Presidential contest again in 1860 and succeeded. The prohibition of slavery ... the people of the North in 1860 decided it in their o

Henry Clay
... for President in The Election of 1860, John Breckenridge, Jr.). In 1798 the ...

James Buchanan
... his eye on the Presidency in 1860, Douglas broke with his fellow Democrat ... Douglas's bid for the Presidency in 1860, Buchanan threw his support

John Floyd
... on mdy:October 18, 1859. In my:July, 1860, Floyd dealt with the resignation of ... investigation for those payments early in 1860. About this time

John Reynolds
... served under Albert Sidney Johnson. In 1860 Reynolds assumed command of the cadets ...

Millard Fillmore
... in politics. From the 1820's until 1860 there were an unusual number of ... and eventually supported Abraham Lincoln in 1860. By 1864 he had becom

Official Records
... Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Dec. 20, 1860-Apr. 4, 1861 Chapter II - The ... Correspondence, Orders, etc., from November 1, 1860, to March 3

Radical Republicans
... Lincoln's victory in The Election of 1860. In order to empower themselves during ...

Robert Barnwell Rhett
... seemed to be destiny that the 1860 Democratic National Convention was scheduled to ... the outcome of The Election of 1860, nor with the reaction

Robert E. Lee
... the campaigning for The Election of 1860. Texas seemed firmly in the John ...

Salmon P. Chase
... had been elected Senator in February, 1860, lacked deep support of party regulars ... an "irrepressible conflict." May brought the 1860 Republican

Special Memorandum to Robert Anderson, December 11, 1860
... Adjutant-General. FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., December 11, 1860. This is in conformity to my ...

The Election of 1860
Election of 1860 Talk of disunion over the past ... into action with The Election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln became the first ... looking towards t

William Hardee
... commandant of West Point until September, 1860, when John F. Reynolds replaced him. Although The Election of 1860 had been lurking for months and

William Tecumseh Sherman
... Sherman Sherman on slavery in Louisiana, 1860 The people of Louisiana were hardly ...

Winfield Scott
... yearly message to Congress in December, 1860 President Buchanan gave Winfield Scott "great ...