Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) Section - Lincoln's Assassination The text chronicles how Douglas

The text chronicles how Douglas moved the issue of slavery from Congress to the ballot box

Scouting for Grant and Meade

the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union

just days after calling them from their academic studies to assist in a crucial defense

And on the open seas

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) Section - Lincoln's Assassination The text chronicles how Douglasby John Avlon As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincolns personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he