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National Union Executive Committee Is the War a Failure?

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01702 Author/Creator: National Union Executive Committee Place Written: New York, New York Type: Broadside Date: 1864 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 29 cm, Width: 22 cm Order a Copy

Pro-Lincoln,Union ticket election broadside defending the Civil War, which the Democratic Convention at Chicago called a failure. Reprints letters of Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Truman Seymour, William T. Sherman and John Adams Dix on the conduct of the war.

National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Seymour, Truman, 1824-1891
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879

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