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To Regard Each Other As Of One Common Family from thinking they were “weary of war.” 43 Fisk chronicled election day as one where the soldiers, “instead of huddling into their tents, driven there by the cold, are gathered in knots in their company streets discussing politics and other grave questions of the hours, and performing the by no means unimportant duty of casting their votes for men and principles…” 44 Wilbur Fisks’s diary entries are but another indication that soldiers’ willingness to answer their civic duties and uphold the virtue they had grown up being taught came from their roles as citizens. Accordingly, these men did not see their service in the military realm as one that excused them of upholding such virtue, and their political participation reflected this. After the war, citizens would retain the political inclination toward participation and civic virtue in the belief that it would collectively better their communities and the newly unified nation. ---- When General John Bell Hood evacuated Atlanta on September 1, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman’s taking of the city prompted McClellan to renounce the “four years of failure” plank of his campaign and instead focus on the 43 Wilbur Fisk, Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865, ed. Emil Rosenblatt and Ruth Rosenblatt (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 266. 44 Ibid., 273. On page 276, Fisk notes that the current final vote of 1114 votes in his brigade was 764 for Lincoln and 350 for McClellan; he details with pride that his regiment, the “banner regiment,” voted 175 for Lincoln, 7 for McClellan. 89
Quaestio “Peace Platform” due to the jubilance and sudden overwhelming, Republican-led support for the Union war effort. The latter differed from the former in its commemoration and recognition of the soldiers’ efforts to carry out their civic responsibility as citizens of their nation and as courageous men of their time. 45 Campaign rallies played on Sherman’s and other recent Union successes, utilizing popular songs and poems such as Thomas B. Read’s “Sheridan’s Ride” after the battle of Cedar Creek. Republicans also took advantage of the recent surge in support for the Union war effort to point out threats of Democratic rebellion in the North - most notably, that of the “Order of American Knights” and the border raids of William Clarke Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson in Missouri. Lincoln defeated McClellan in the Electoral College 212 to 21. In the nineteen states that had legislatively approved of soldiers voting in the field, Lincoln carried 78% of the soldier vote, compared to 53% of civilians from those same states. 46 In this article, I used republican virtue as the animating force of political soldierhood. The essential principles of selfgovernment and democracy came to play defining roles in the Northern soldier’s political soldierhood. Ultimately, the political egalitarianism and unity through political participation that this 45 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 775-776. 46 Ibid., 804-805. This overwhelming soldiers’ support for Lincoln foreshadows the loyalty to the Union - and, for the purposes of my argument, eventual unity - that would prevail in postbellum America. 90
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