If Lincoln had not died
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01-08-2013, 08:02 AM
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RE: If Lincoln had not died
When I was teaching my course did not include Reconstruction. The last time I had a class that included Reconstruction was in 1964. My knowledge is certainly limited.
But, I thought I would include a statement by Dr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. "No myth has a stronger hold on the popular mind than the assertion that John Wilkes Booth's bullet killed the best friend the South ever had. Yet the mildness of Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction may well have been a lure to get a warring people back. What he would have done in peacetime remains unknown." |
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