Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) Section - Gettysburg Campaign Ignoring or denying the unexplained

Ignoring or denying the unexplained doesn’t make it go away

commanders on both sides brought their armies to the brink of destruction without even knowing it

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that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton engineered the assassination or that John Wilkes Booth was a mad actor fueled by delusional revenge

Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) Section - Gettysburg Campaign Ignoring or denying the unexplainedby Ronald C. White Jr. As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward Reconstruction? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln finally stood before his fellow countrymen on March 4, 1865, and had only 703 words to share, the American public was stunned. The