What are you reading now?

[Thomas Thorne]

I am reading "Final Freedom: The Civil War,the Abolition of Slavery,and the Thirteenth Amendment" by Michael Vorenberg.

It is interesting to see the development of abolitionist sentiment among significant numbers of Northern Democrats as early as late 1863/early 1864 and I am only up to p 60. The most prominent of these so far was John Brough, a vigorous War Democrat who was elected Governor of Ohio in 1863 on the Union ticket. His opponent was Democrat Clement Vallandigham who had become a martyr to Peace Democrats after he had earlier that year been banished to the Confederacy after his conviction by a military commission for disloyal statements.

Brough was a vigorous wartime governor who according to Wiki exceeded Ohio's troop quota.

Both he and and Vallandigham came to unlikely ends. In the summer of 1865 Gov Brough tripped and fell and badly sprained an ankle. Inflammation and gangrene developed and he died. Vallandigham,in 1871, while trying a case, tested a pistol at the court house by pulling the trigger. He killed himself not realizing the gun was loaded.

Please remind me to avoid these two fellow klutzes.
Tom