Tonight on "Lectures in History," Christopher Newport University professor Jonathan White teaches a class about the 1864 presidential election pitting incumbent Abraham Lincoln against his former top general, Democrat George McClellan. With casualties mounting and Union armies stalemated in the field, Professor White says, that by August 1864, President Lincoln was unpopular with the electorate and convinced he would lose. But a Democratic platform conciliatory to the Confederates -- viewed by m

The land that is now @copperbreaksstatepark was once owned by George McClellan, the man that lost to Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election. 👕🧢: @thcprovisions 💦: @rambleraustin #copperbreaksstatepark #abrahamlincoln #texas | John Sorsby - Texas History & Outdoors