"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds," said President Lincoln in 1865. The wounds following the Civil War were extremely deep with over 750,000 American killed in four years of fighting. Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, Grant and Hayes tried unsuccessfully to heal the nation. This 12 year failure has lived with us through generations. It is also one of the least studied portions of American history as we don't like to shine light on our failures as a people.
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