By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation.
As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the war\'s unimaginable.
After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washington\'s Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a Second term.
By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation