Tag: Election of 1876
“The Secret History of the Election of 1876-1877” by One of the Conspirators
The Secret History of the Election 1876-1877 by Abram Hewett
Around the Web February 2021: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Program Notes: I had been posting this feature towards the end of the month, now I will be posting it at the start of the…
The Secret Inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes That Ended the Disputed Election of 1876
Presidents originally served until March 4 of the year following the presidential election. On March 4, 1877 the term of President Ulysses S. Grant came…
The Contested Election of 1876
The Election of 1876 was the most contentious in United States history. While Lincoln’s election in 1860 had more tumultuous consequences, once the Democratic Party…
An Irish Immigrant Supporter of Lincoln Writes to His Daughter that the 1876 Election Is a Fraud
Patrick Guiney was the colonel commanding the Irish 9th Massachusetts Regiment when he was badly wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. He would suffer…
How to Manufacture a Faithless Elector: Oregon in the Election of 1876
Oregon was a young state in 1876 and its politics were unpredictable. With only three Electoral votes, it did not get much attention during the…
1876 Winning the Election by Refusing to Certify the Vote & Throwing Out Results
The initial vote counts for three states were incredibly close in the days after the November 7 Election of 1876. In South Carolina, Republican Rutherford…
Counting the Vote in 1876-Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Election Day 1876 had gone anything but smoothly in South Carolina. The heavily armed white Redshirt supporters of former Confederate General Wade Hampton set the…
By Nov. 12 Rutherford B. Hayes Comes to Terms with Defeat by “Violations of the 15th Amendment”
On November 12, 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes wrote in his diary that he had accepted that he had lost the election. He wrote that numerous…
Hayes Warns Don’t Claim Victory Until the Votes Are Fully Counted
The day after the Election of 1876, Republican candidate Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes looked over the telegrams reporting the still only partial vote tallies…
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