How Lincoln Almost Lost it All
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History channel original podcast history this week, december eleventh, 18 62. In sally hel four o'clock in the morning, a heavy fog lies over the rappahannock river. The plan is that a hundred thousand union soldiers will cross these bridges into town of fredericksburg and take it over. It's a key battle, not just for military reasons, but also for political ones. President lincoln has just put out a preliminary version of the emancipation proclamation which will declare that all enslaved people in confederate states are free. But to make that proclamation a reality, he needs a military victory behind him. By the time this battle is over, they'll
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