Description
bloody battles
in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it
few were more pervasive than malaria--a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1
the Union Army
Veterans experienced climbing rates of depression
Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) lee bloody battlesby 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