Noah Andre Trudeau is the author of Gettysburg. He has won the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jerry Coffey Memorial Prize. A former executive producer at National Public Radio, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. 'I am very unwell,' he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was winding down, leaving momentous questions for a war-weary pres... SEE MORE