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Forgotten America

Summary

The military vote has always been controversial—especially in war. Travel back to 1864 to piece together the coalition that kept Abraham Lincoln in the White House, examining the complicated logistical effort to count ballots on the battlefront, before examining the long fight to enfranchise soldiers after the Civil War.

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