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...counties that became West Virginia in 1863, only 5.7% of families owned slaves...
PERIL He won the great Union victory at Gettysburg and turned the tide of the war, but let Lee's battered army escape to Virginia, where it would fight again...
PERIL Despite suffering enormous casualties, he relentlessly pounded Lee's army through Virginia to the siege at Petersburg and, finally, Appomattox...
...years, people had been saying to Rubin, "Did anyone ever tell you you look like ..." So he approached Borror and asked what it took to become a Lincoln. "Within a year," Borror says with a rueful smile, "he had taken all the events I used to do in West Virginia...
...final quarter of the book tracks Booth's escape to Virginia, using false names and hobbled by a broken leg, where federal troops eventually catch up to him. He dies while resisting arrest with the final words, "Useless?useless." Geary then wraps up his brief history with a survey of the remaining questions that still surround the events. For example, why did the government remove 18 pages from Booth's journal, and what became of them? Even such open-and-shut cases as Lincoln's murder seem to always have a bit of mystery about them...