Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw Armistead and Hancock: Behind the

Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend clarifies the historic record with new information and fresh perspective

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Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw Armistead and Hancock: Behind theFor 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