Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) matte from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton

from soldiers’ advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech “a sacred effort”) to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth―all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln

will want this book on their shelf

but history reveals something different from the legend that holds up Hancock and Armistead as sentimental symbols of a nation torn apart

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many heretofore untapped

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) matte from soldiers’ advocate Clara BartonFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide