Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) Section - Lincoln's Assassination And on the open seas

And on the open seas

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

" As Don relates in the preface to "I Met More Ghosts at Gettysburg

transforming a vulnerable capital into a bastion for the Union

Scouting for Grant and Meade

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace (John Avion - LP) Section - Lincoln's Assassination And on the open seasby 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