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Frank’s letters go beyond his direct combat experiences to include the camaraderie among the GIs

John Wilkes Booth stood in the ranks of one of its future companies at John Brown’s hanging

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The Great Comeback: How Abraham Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination (David Ecelbarger - LP) gottfried and participated in political workby Gary Ecelbarger In the fall of 1858, Abraham Lincoln looked to be anything but destined for greatness. Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, Lincoln was wallowing in the depths of despair following his loss to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign and was taking stock in his life. The author takes us on a journey with Abraham Lincoln from the last weeks of 1858 until the end of May in 1860, on the road to his unlikely Republication