Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Don't Tread on Me Fry examines several key crisis

Fry examines several key crisis points to show how enlisted men developed political awareness that went beyond personal loyalties

the Stone Wall at the base of Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg loomed large over the Army of the Potomac

The devasting loss of life among the general officers contributed to the outcome of the battle

Via the lost art of letter writing

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Don't Tread on Me Fry examines several key crisisFor 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