Description
The South’s single biggest opportunity to effect political change within the North was once the presidential contest of 1864. If Lincoln’s strengthen foundered and the North elected a president with a more flexible vision of peace at the continent, the South may realize its dream of independence.
In Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric, Larry Nelson vividly brings to life the complex state of Northern politics throughout the election year of 1863. He recounts fluctuations within the value of the dollar, draft resistance and riots, protests against emancipation, political defeats suffered by the Republicans within the elections of 1862, and growing discontent within the border states and Midwest.
Nelson offers an insider’s have a look at the administration of Jefferson Davis, as it looked for cracks in Northern unity and electoral opportunities to take advantage of. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric is an engrossing account of a little bit-known facet of Civil War statecraft and politics.