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Re: Interesting facts

Mostly accurate,
Lincoln was shot in Fords theater.
Booth escaped, the company of soldiers that "trapped" him were paid a large bounty by Sec. of State Seward, so they had motive to keep quiet. It was in everyones best interest to let the public think they had killed Booth. Witnesses at the seen said it was not Booth that was drug out of the tobacco drying barn. Booth lived in the Oklahoma Territory until his death around the turn of the century.
Lincoln was not concerned with Civil Rights, stated on several occasions he would have left slavery in place if it would preserve the Union. The only way he could get support for war from the North East was to let the abolitionist include slavery in the agenda.
Lincoln also made Nevada a state before it met the criteria to become a state and didn't have the min. population for another 30 years, he needed the electoral votes or he would not have been re-elected in 1864. 
Lincoln has been raised to the level of hero by the rewriting of history, but like all politicians and lawyers he had his shady side too.  
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