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Lincoln, Shakespeare, and the Wilderness

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

“My God! My God! twenty thousand poor souls sent to their final account in one day,” President Lincoln lamented after the battle of the Wilderness. “I cannot bear it! I cannot bear it!” 

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