2:25pm PST - February 5th, 2022

Abraham Lincoln’s mother died when he was 9. Frederick Douglass’s when he was 7. John Brown’s when he was 8. Robert E. Lee’s when he was 22 (and father when he was 11) The Civil War was shaped by men who suffered profound loss years before the war itself.

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