Fascinating retelling of the two weeks leading up to Lincoln's Assassination. This included Lee's defeat at Petersburg, his retreat, and his final surrender - details of which I didn't not know. I feel sad thinking about Lincoln's Assassination, and the deluded thinking behind it. It is so strange to me that had one or two details been different Lincoln would have been spared, or at least, not on that day. It is also interesting to note he died on Easter Sunday.

p.11 Lee's attempted escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains would not end the war (but lead to guerrilla warfare) citizens in the North would demand an end to the war, and the union would be divided.

p 90: "I always thought that Dixie was one of the best tunes I ever heard. Our adversaries over the way, I know, have attempted to appropriate it. But I insist that yesterday we fairly captured it. . . . It is now our property . . . favor us with a performance."

p 108: trusting the South to peacefully join the Union was going to be as challenging as the war itself.