Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw and the causes and effects

and the causes and effects of the American Civil War

and the victories that defined their experience in the great struggle to save the union

Footnotes and a note to parents and teachers

by James Rada

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) ecw and the causes and effectsFor 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