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To: #3Fan
Booth did not know the war was over. The principle actors did not even know the war was over. What Lincoln had, what Lincoln was celebrating, was the honerable surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Lincoln's greatest fear was that the country would be ripped asunder by partisan warfare and guerrilla attacks for years to come. He did not know the war was over.

Davis pressed Johnston to take his army Westward into the trans-Mississippi where the remaining confederates could regroup and rally. He did not know the war was over.

News of the surrender of the ANV would take weeks to make it into the western theater and the deep south, especially since Sherman had destroyed any mechanism for communication.

You are mistaken about the facts.

1,040 posted on 03/19/2004 9:04:36 PM PST by Gianni (Sarcasm, the other white meat.)
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To: Gianni
Booth did not know the war was over. The principle actors did not even know the war was over. What Lincoln had, what Lincoln was celebrating, was the honerable surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. ... You are mistaken about the facts.

You know how to turn a phrase ;o)

1,050 posted on 03/20/2004 8:33:43 AM PST by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross - HIS love for us kept Him there. (||)
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To: Gianni
Booth did not know the war was over. The principle actors did not even know the war was over. What Lincoln had, what Lincoln was celebrating, was the honerable surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lincoln's greatest fear was that the country would be ripped asunder by partisan warfare and guerrilla attacks for years to come. He did not know the war was over.

Booth knew the war was over. Lincoln knew the war was over. You guy's defense of this murderer speaks volumes about your character.

Davis pressed Johnston to take his army Westward into the trans-Mississippi where the remaining confederates could regroup and rally. He did not know the war was over.

Yes he did.

News of the surrender of the ANV would take weeks to make it into the western theater and the deep south, especially since Sherman had destroyed any mechanism for communication. You are mistaken about the facts.

Booth knew the war was over. Even most southerners despised Booth.

1,121 posted on 03/21/2004 11:07:18 PM PST by #3Fan (Kerry to POW-MIA activists: "You'll wish you'd never been born.". Link on my homepage.)
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