1864 Abraham Lincoln Forever Inseparable 25 Campaign Medal King-878 White Metal DeWitt Unlisted

An 1864 campaign medalet for Abraham Lincoln's reelection, struck in white metal at 24.5 mm and cataloged as King-878. It belongs to the Forever Inseparable group, named for the legend the type carries. Lincoln ran in 1864 as the National Union candidate with Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, against George B. McClellan, the general he had removed from command of the Army of the Potomac two years earlier. The election ran while the war did. That August, Lincoln wrote and had his cabinet sign a memorandum, unread, accepting that he was probably about to lose. Sherman took Atlanta two weeks later and the race turned. King numbers come from Robert P. King's Lincoln in Numismatics, the standard reference for Lincoln medals, tokens and medalets. J. Doyle DeWitt's separate catalog of campaign material does not carry this piece, which is all that DeWitt Unlisted means here. It is not a statement about rarity. About Uncirculated. Offered raw, without certification.