Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865. By Richard Ely Danielson. September 1941 Issue. Share. Save. By Margaret Leech HARPERS, $3.50.

The vice president, a Southern Democrat, was about to preside over the counting of the Electoral College ballots after a hotly disputed election. The mood was ...

What was the immediate consequence of Abraham Lincoln winning the 1860 election? How did Washington DC view and treat Mary Lincoln as First Lady? Explain why. Participants. Vocabulary.

AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.; ... Oct. 6, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 6, 1860, Page 2 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Before Washington, DC became the capital city of the United States, it was a sprawling, 100-square-mile plot of plantations, forests, and hills. ... Here it is half-finished in 1860.

This was the United States of 1860, as the conflict over slavery threatened to split the nation in two. The election of Abraham Lincoln, the first antislavery president, was met with Southern ...

Affairs at Washington The Feeling at the South. Share full article. Nov. 5, 1860. ... See the article in its original context from November 5, 1860, Page 5 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

And in 1860, this diverse coalition of young Americans drew the line against slavery and help to elect Abraham Lincoln. Their success can tell us a lot about cobbling together a coalition in a ...