Status Updates From The Age of Lincoln

Better than I thought. Very informative and an easy read.

A long journey thru the Age of Lincoln. So much researched thru those times that seems were still trying to find that thing yet not determined to try and get it done. Trying to find our way. Seems that civil war is still with us. I'll be thinking about this for some time.

Remember reading about the railroad strikes. The massacre of native Americans. We think we live in awful times. Nothing compared to what they lived. Economically were facing issues but nothing like they did. Lincoln would never foresee this.

THE PROMISED LAND-Chapter was hard to read. Going thru the end of the Civil War,the assassination of Lincoln and the African Americans continue to going thru being 2nd to everyone else.
If they couldn't continue to chain them they would try to keep denying their rights as citizens and free men.
It seems to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom was still being denied. Frustration was F. Douglass.

Opposing ideologies is what doomed the south in this war. It caused internal conflict. They predicated on a dream of internal unity that crossed lines of class,gender and races was never realized.
There was not enough shared ideology to overcome class conflict.Contradictions within and among southerners doomed the confederacy
Divine Providence did not intervene on the confederate's behalf. Interesting.

A Giant holocaust of death is a good example describing the horrifying deaths of north and south soldiers in the Civil War. How Lincoln saw it through I can't imagine. No wonder he aged 10yrs afterwards.