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Lincoln, Shakespeare, and the Wilderness
“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!”
Posted in Lincoln, Newspapers
Tagged Anecdotes of Public Men, John Weiss Forney, Lincoln, Macbeth, Shakespeare, wilderness
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