2025-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/26/2025
Military Election Poll Book, 16" x 12" with bold title on the Cover, "POLL-BOOK, October Election, Companies. The first page provides the description, in part, "Of the election held on the second Tuesday of October, in the year one thousand and sixty four ... Cambria County State as Pennsylvania, being in actual Military Service ... Regiment of Pennsylvania held at Rendezvous of Distribution Va, ..." This followed by the oaths taken and a listing of six voters. During the election of 1864, 19 Union states, including Pennsylvania, allowed soldiers in the field to cast their votes by absentee ballot. In Pennsylvania, absentee elections were conducted on October 11, 1864 (as denoted in this poll book, being the second Tuesday in October) and election officials recorded the votes of various companies of soldiers in poll-books.
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