 The city of York, Pennsylvania, became the largest Northern city to be occupied by Confederate troops when Jubal A.Early's division took control of the town in late June 1863 and extracted a ransom.During the 1860 Presidential Election, Pennsylvania voted in favor of Abraham Lincoln (268,030 votes or 56.3% of the ballots cast) over Stephen Douglas (178,765; 37.5%), John C. Breckinridge (16,765; 3.5%), and John Bell (12,776; 2.7%).