Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Douglass Colonel Benton is soon forced

Colonel Benton is soon forced to recognize that there is more to being a good soldier than leading a cavalry charge

First-person accounts from individuals in and around Gettysburg who witnessed the battle and its aftermath

HENRY BALLONE

Ninepins originated with the Dutch

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Douglass Colonel Benton is soon forcedFor 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