U.S. Civil War History
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln offered his plan for reunification with his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
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| "The dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. Mr. Matthew Brady has done something to bring us the terrible reality and earnestness of the war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along our streets, he has done something very like it." - The New York Times |