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disunion … among Republicans?

In the latter part of February 1864 the Pomeroy Circular was an effort to drum up Republican support for Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase to replace President Lincoln as the party’s presidential candidate. When the “foreign journals” with the news … Continue reading

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