The National Union Party, commonly known as the Union Party, and sometimes as the Republican–Union coalition, was a coalition of Republicans, War Democrats, and Unconditional Unionists that supported
1864 National Union Party campaign banner
John Bell (left) and Edward Everett, candidates of the Constitutional Union Party in 1860
William H. Seward, secretary of state in Lincoln's administration and a key contributor to the Union Party strategy
First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861
The 1862–63 United States Senate elections were held from January 4, 1862, to November 13, 1863. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 20 out of the 70 seats in the United States Senate, and spe
