Ex-Southern soldiers became presidents of national professional societies including the American Bar Association
it was probably from his classic Recollections of the Civil War (1898)
Sacher’s history of Confederate conscription serves as the first comprehensive examination of the topic in nearly one hundred years
describing how shortages of malarial medicine helped erode traditional gender roles by turning genteel southern women into smugglers
Abraham Lincoln, American Prince: Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Wayne Sioni - LP) Donation Ex-Southern soldiers became presidents ofby Wayne Soini The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most influential ancestors his mother and "the Virginia planter," a slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met is rarely mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However, Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his