Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) holzer which remains widely misunderstood nearly

which remains widely misunderstood nearly 160 years after the shot from his pocket pistol echoed through the crowded theater

- Maryland Civilians and Confederate Failure in the State

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The Civil War had just begun

is it Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg--and not

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) holzer which remains widely misunderstood nearlyby John Avlon As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincolns personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he