Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) Frederick Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) Frederick Abraham Lincolnby 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