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President Lincoln asked Gen. Sherman to let soldiers from Indiana return home to vote in the October 1864 elections, if it was operationally safe to do so, but that they didn't need to stay for the presidential election. What was happening in Indiana in 1864 that led Lincoln to make this request?

by /u/NetworkLlama in /r/AskHistorians

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