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How Lincoln Almost Lost it All

HISTORY This Week

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Still Goes

The defeat at fredericksburg is not just a military disaster, it also touches off a political crisis. A few days after the president hears news about what's happened in virginia, he gets an unexpected visit. Two men come to the white house with a letter. It's from seward offering his resignation.

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