Abstract
Abstract On November 7, 1864, Abraham Lincoln, after a bitter campaign, won reelection to the presidency. Both contemporaries and modern historians have viewed the election as a mandate for the “unconditional surrender” of the Confederacy and, as one scholar has expressed it, an affirmation of Lincoln’s “strategy of total war to overthrow the [South’s] social and political system.” Historians have written that by this time Lincoln and the Northern people had adopted a policy of requiring the unconditional surrender of the rebel forces to be followed by the subjugation of the South to the Northern will.
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