Desc: Fighting for Lincoln: The Wide Awakes: Directed by Keith Johnson, Shane Seley. With Joe Aull, JoAnn Barber, Dan Barnett, Rachel Bitecofer. This is the story of the 1860 election, and how a group of politically minded young men created a national political organization - the Wide Awakes - who marched by torch light and may have handed the Presidency to Abraham Lincoln