Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America (Scott Ellsworth - CH) Section-Pre Civil War and Thomas had to wait

and Thomas had to wait

Yet their letters were often full of determination

free blacks

and negotiating formal agreements for the exchange of prisoners―practices that laid the intellectual foundations for emancipation

Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America (Scott Ellsworth - CH) Section-Pre Civil War and Thomas had to waitby Scott Ellsworth From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil Warand a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Told with a page turning pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate months of the war, when the outcome