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FREEDOM CALLING - Book Highlights

PRESIDENT LINCOLN was shot just 6 DAYS after GENERAL LEE'S surrender at Appomattox!

Did John Wilkes Booth figure to put America into chaos? Give the Confederates a chance to rally in the turmoil?

Even though Vice President Andrew Johnson was sworn in the morning after Lincoln's death, Johnson's ideas were not completely in alignment with those of President Lincoln.

With Lincoln dead would the whole of the Confederacy even honor Lee's surrender? Remember Lee said he was surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia. Confederate General Johnston was still down south, and still fighting!

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea

With Washington, DC, the White House and President Lincoln just across the Potomac from the Confederate Army, the Federals had to be ever vigilant and the approach to the capitol was well-defended.

Here, in this original photograph, a gun crew of Union soldiers from the 4th New York Heavy Artillery load a 24-pounder M.1845 Seacoast Gun at Fort Corcoran in Alexandria, Va. The cannoneer on the left holds a hollow explosive-shell. On the ground to the right are a grapeshot and canister-shell. (Library of Congress)

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Freedom Calling: A Civil War Slave Escapes by Sea