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The Funeral Of Abraham Lincoln And The Manhunt For Jefferson Davis

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In the story “Bloody TImes The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis.” It begins with Jefferson Davis having to flee the capital of the Confederacy (Richmond) and had to travel to the city of Danville Virginia. Jefferson Davis took a train for hours trying to escape the Union. The train was filled with sorrow as the Confederate government became a “government on wheels” (Swanson 14). Mid way through the story the capital of the Confederacy was lost to the Union. Lincoln himself went to see the city he had been trying to claim for a long four years. When he arrived slaves surrounded him thanking him for freeing them. Near the end of the story an event occurred that changed history, and maybe even the world. A man
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