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5 giorni fa · The Democratic Party split between two wings – Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois and Vice President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky – nominally because of unbridgeable divisions over a Congressional slave code but really a culmination of Southern distrust of Stephen Douglas and his tepid commitment to prioritize the protection of slavery.
3 giorni fa · 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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1 giorno fa · John C. Breckinridge scrambled to organize the Confederate defense. When the opposing brigades clashed near the small crossroads town of New Market on May 15, I864, new legends of courage were born. Local civilians witnessed the combat unfold in their streets, churchyards, and fields and aided the fallen.
4 giorni fa · Imboden’s troopers are joined by Maj. Gen. John Breckinridge and some 5,000 hastily gathered reinforcements, including 247 Virginia Military Institute cadets. Breckenridge attacks and Sigel is able to hold for a while, but by late afternoon is forced to retreat to Strasburg, leaving the Valley in Southern control.
3 giorni fa · Its first presidential candidate was John C. Fremont in 1856, who lost to Democrat James Buchanan. By 1860, the nation was deeply divided over the issue of slavery. The Democratic Party split into Northern and Southern factions over the issue, with the Southern Democrats nominating John Breckinridge and the Northern Democrats nominating Stephen Douglas.
2 giorni fa · The issue split the Democrats at their 1860 presidential convention, where Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckinridge and Northern Democrats nominated Douglas.
2 giorni fa · Robert Jefferson Breckinridge was known theologically for his adherence to the Westminster Standards with Old School Presbyterian precision; politically for siding with the Union during the Civil War within a family including Southern sympathizers; as well as rhetorically for his skill lecturing about subjects of interest and persuasively preaching the Bible as a minister.
