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Vor 2 Tagen · He won the nomination after seventeen ballots after Douglas' resignation. He was joined on the ticket by John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky in order to maintain regional proportional representation, placating supporters of Pierce and Douglas, also allies of Breckinridge.
- Franklin Pierce
- Abraham Lincoln
Vor 23 Stunden · The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin [2] won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national ...
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Vor einem Tag · When Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, delegates from eleven slave states walked out of the Democratic convention; they opposed Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and selected incumbent Vice President John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.
Vor 5 Tagen · Major-General John C. Breckinridge’s makeshift Confederate army left Staunton on the morning of May 13 to join forces with Brigadier-General John D. Imboden’s cavalry at New Market. Imboden dispersed Federal cavalry commands at Front Royal and New Market, inflicting about 150 casualties and putting 800 enemy troopers out of ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John C. Breckinridge (1803) DEAR SIR, The enclosed letter, tho’ directed to you, was intended to me also, and was left open with a request, that when perused, I would forward it to you. It gives me occasion to write a word to you on the subject of Louisiana, which being a new one, an interchange of sentiments ...
Vor 5 Tagen · John C. Breckinridge, fourteenth Vice-President of the United States and current Confederate Major General, had a big problem. His task was to hold the Shenandoah Valley, the bread basket of the Army of Northern Virginia, for the Confederacy, and he was confronted with two Union columns seeking to rendezvous at Staunton, Virginia and ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The battle took place on May 15, 1864, as Union troops under Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel were stopped in their advance up the Shenandoah Valley by Confederate troops led by Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge. Among those Confederate troops were young cadets from Virginia Military Institute who were rushed into the fighting at a crucial point in the battle.
