Offered is a complete issue of the Boston Daily Advertiser, Wednesday morning, November 9, 1864 — the day-after edition reporting the results of the pivotal 1864 presidential election. The front page carries the bold headline "ELECTION OF 1864 / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ANDREW JOHNSON / ELECTED," accompanied by extensive returns transmitted "BY TELEGRAPH" from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Maryland, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Washington, and other states. Additional front-page content reports "Union Demonstrations Last Evening" with a "Great Rejoicing in Faneuil Hall," including speeches by Edward Everett, Charles Sumner, and Samuel Hooper, plus detailed Massachusetts election tables covering the gubernatorial race and county-by-county legislative returns.

Lincoln's re-election, secured amid the ongoing war and buoyed by Sherman's capture of Atlanta that September, marked a decisive repudiation of the Democratic "peace" platform and George B. McClellan's candidacy, and effectively ensured the Union's continued prosecution of the war to its conclusion. A period Boston newspaper reporting this result firsthand is a significant piece of Civil War home-front and political history.

The issue also includes contemporary war coverage ("The Capture of the Florida," an account of a Confederate blockade-runner/raider's capture) and a full complement of period advertising, shipping notices, financial and insurance listings, and classified notices typical of the Advertiser.

CONDITION: Measures approximately 21" x 30", with old fold lines and some fold-separation tears, otherwise in very fine, legible condition.  [ss][ph:L]

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