Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) Donation The more dismal side of

The more dismal side of the Gettysburg campaign is covered: burials of Union and Confederate corpses

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General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier

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Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) Donation The more dismal side ofby Wayne Soini The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors his mother and "the Virginia planter," a slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met is rarely mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However, Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his