Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) wooden Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathies

Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathies drew the attention of supporters of presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln—and Pinkerton was hired to act as his bodyguard

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America

and the start of the tentative peace in 1865

all of which combined to shape memory of the war’s end

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Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) wooden Pinkerton’s politics and abolitionist sympathiesby Ronald C. White Jr. As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Lincoln guide the nation toward Reconstruction? What about the slaves? They had been emancipated, but what about the matter of suffrage? When Lincoln finally stood before his fellow countrymen on March 4, 1865, and had only 703 words to share, the American public was stunned. The