Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Douglass Remembering the War

Remembering the War

and career

Colonel Benton is soon forced to recognize that there is more to being a good soldier than leading a cavalry charge

Federal and Victorian periods

The widow Lydia Leister bought her small 9-acre Taneytown Road farm just south of Gettysburg in 1861

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Douglass Remembering the WarFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide