No. He was a Union General, popular with the rank and file, but mistrusted in Washington, where some of Lincoln's cabinet doubted his loyalty. After Lincoln eventually sacked him, he stood against him in the 1864 election, but lost.
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Union General George B. McClellan repudiated his party's Copperhead platform and polled 45 percent of the popular vote in the election of 1864. He lost the election to Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln's first election was in August 1832. He ran for a seat on the Illinois General Assembly but lost.
The appointment of U.S. Grant as General-in-Chief in March of 1864 is considered by many historians as a vital step President Lincoln had to make. Or some would say Lincoln's election win in November. (If he'd lost, the South would probably have been granted its independence.)
If Lincoln had lost the 1864 election, the South would have gained its independence in some form.
It was more like 2 years. For most of that tme, their cause was virtually lost. After Lincoln won the election of November 1864, it was totally lost.
Lincoln lost
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Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. In the 1864 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes and George McClellan received 21 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 2,218,388 and McClellan 1,812,807.
It was the last time that the Confederates looked like winning in military terms. But even then, reunion was not inevitable, as Lincoln could easily have lost the Election of 1864.