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    During the Bristoe campaign, Ohio troops cast ballots for the gubernatorial race between John Brough and Clement Vallandigham. On October 14, the men of the 110th Ohio voted. According to two members of the regiment, they believed that Brough would garner most of the Union soldier's ballots. Corporal Hill worried that fighting might interrupt their chance for voting, and if that occured, "I am afraid Val[landigham] will be elected as more than 4/5 of the soldier's will vote against him." According to Keifer, while skirmishing with the enemy, "ballot-boxes were opened, and a regular election was held for the Ohio troops, both the boxes and ballots being carried to the voters along the battle-line so they might vote without breaking it." After the tabulation, the colonel observed that "no Clark County man voted for Vallandigham."

    from: The Weary Boys, Colonel J. Warren Keifer & the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
    by Thomas E. Pope p.48 Kent State Press 2002
    Ryan B.Weddle

    7th New York State Militia

    "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" - Henry David Thoreau

    "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their country."
    – George Washington , 1789


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    Re: Voting in the field...

    Hallo Kameraden!

    My g-g-grandfather along with a handful of men were noted in the regimental history of the 12th PA Cavalry as having "disgraced the regiment" in the 1864 election by not voting for Lincoln.

    Either the men talked, or the ballots were not so secret... ;-)

    Curt-Heinrich Schmidt
    Curt Schmidt
    In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

    -Hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
    -Haplogroup R1b M343 (Subclade R1b1a2 M269)
    -Pointless Folksy Wisdom Mess, Oblio Lodge #1
    -Vastly Ignorant
    -Often incorrect, technically, historically, factually.

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