Describe a Breckenridge-Grant voter in the South

[NotSoLucky]

Not sure if there's been a thread like this already XP

[Tartarus Sauce]

Scallywags that joined the Republican Party during Reconstruction. Scallywags came from an assortment of backgrounds, from Southern Unionists to closeted abolitionists and former confederates who only took up arms out of a sense of patriotic duty, but were previously opposed to the secessionist project before the Battle of Fort Sumter. However, plenty of them were also former secessionist Confederates that changed tack after the war, and thus would have been Breckenridge voters in 1860. Such men, though only a small slice of the Southern electorate, would have been fairly easy to come by within the formal Republican machinery of the Southern states by 1868.

[H. Ross Peron]

James Longstreet

[Tartarus Sauce]

James Longstreet

Longstreet was an army paymaster in New Mexico directly preceding the Civil War, so I’m not sure if he would have been capable of casting a ballot. Somebody more knowledgeable about the voting eligibility of army officers stationed in American territories during the 19th century could fill in here. If he did, he definitely would have voted for Breckinridge.