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6/8: Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War Hardcover – Illustrated, March 18, 2025 by Michael Vorenber

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🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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6/8: Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War Hardcover – Illustrated, March 18, 2025 
by  Michael Vorenber

1865 LINCOLN ASSASSINATION TRIAL

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.4

I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.

0:07.9

A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.

0:14.2

For materials, tool higher, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.

0:19.0

Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square metre.

0:22.4

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Bertels.

0:30.1

This is CBSI and the world.

0:31.5

I'm John Bachelor with Michael Vorenberg.

0:33.3

His book is Lincoln's Peace,

0:34.7

The Struggle to End the American Civil War. We're in Congress now.

0:38.8

The battles that are important require us to understand the personality and the transformation

0:44.1

and the disappointment in the president, Andrew Johnson. What do we need to know about him between

0:51.7

Lincoln's assassination and early 1866. Well, let me step back to this moment of

1:00.7

Richard Henry Dana giving his grasp of war speech in the summer of 1865. That philosophical stance

1:08.3

that the United States is still able to use war powers, that it's still in a state of war, even if the organized armies have stopped fighting each other, that is the basis under which Congress will start to frame Reconstruction legislation when it comes into session in December of 1865.

1:31.4

And as you say, starts to make laws that are crucial to reconstruction.

1:34.4

There are two laws that are most important.

1:39.7

One is the renewal or the creation, it's the renewal of the Freedmen's Bureau Act,

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