Incident at an Antique Store

[RJNorton]

(08-18-2014 10:46 AM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Further, historians do not really know what Lincoln's Reconstruction program might have been after Appomattox. It is quite possible that he might have compromised with the Radical Republicans more than we think today.

Dr. Mark Neely makes an interesting observation in The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia. He writes, "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."