Incident at an Antique Store

[L Verge]

I am posing this in a non-confrontational manner (I hope) because I have asked this question numerous times to Lincoln students and experts alike and never get a clear answer: Do you (anyone) feel that Reconstruction would have been totally different under Lincoln's leadership? Did he have the political strength and savvy to hold the Radicals at bay once the war was over?

Lincoln's legend-makers appear to be certain that his death sealed the fate of Southerners when it came to overcoming the economic as well as social upheavals that the war had brought. I'm not so sure - and I say that mainly because of human nature.

I know that I'm throwing out one of those "what if" situations. But, hey, someone wrote a whole book on the subject of what if the South had won the war...