Timeline (Glory to Dixie)

1860

 * November 6: President James Buchanan is reelected as President of the United States.

1861

 * January 1: Jefferson Davis is elected as the first President of the Confederate States.

1864

 * November 8: Abraham Lincoln defeats Stephen A. Douglas to become the next President of the United States.

1866

 * November 6: Vice-President Alexander Stephens is elected President of the Confederate States.

1868

 * November 3: President Lincoln is reelected President of the United States.

1872

 * November 5: Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley to become the next President of the United States.

1873

 * March 4: Abraham Lincoln leaves office as the most popular President in national history, regarded as the "Great Unifier" for his efforts in keeping the north together following the Confederate Revolutionary War.

1908

 * November 3: Secretary of War William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan.

1909

 * May 23: The Democratic Party of the United States is dissolved after loosing support from the nation and not winning an election since 1892.

1912

 * November 5: Progressive candidate and former President Theodore Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate President Taft and Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs.

1916

 * November 7: President Roosevelt is reelected President of the United States.

1919

 * January 6: President Roosevelt dies in his sleep. Vice-President Henry C. Lodge is sworn in.

1920

 * November 2: Republican candidate Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York defeats Progressive candidate James M. Cox of Ohio to become the next President of the United States.

1924

 * November 4: President Hughes is reelected President of the United States.