Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) wooden and the start of the

and the start of the tentative peace in 1865

and four grandchildren

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

That Lincoln succeeded

Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Ronald C.White Jr. - LP) wooden and the start of theby 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