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To: jmacusa
The only reason Davis wasn’t hung was because of the mercy of Lincoln. Guess you missed The Emancipation Proclamation too, huh?

OK, at least now you are cracking jokes. That's an improvement.

For those less attuned to history:

Lincoln Assassinated April 15, 1865
Jefferson Davis captured May 10, 1865

126 posted on 05/17/2015 3:06:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
That's as revisionist a history as I've ever seen. Lincoln didn't wait until the end of the war to ‘’let them up easy’’(his words) He let Grant know that before the two met at Appomattox Courthouse.
128 posted on 05/17/2015 3:10:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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