Alcatraz was supposed to be a prison for America’s worst prisoners. But even before the department of prisons actually took over the island, the military used it as a place to keep the civil war prisoners.
Alcatraz Ghosts
Posted by admin in Miscellaneous on March 4, 2012
Lincoln and the Ghosts of the Civil War
Posted by admin in Miscellaneous on March 4, 2012
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln is a lynchpin of American history. Once in office, the long simmering feuds between northern and southern states soon boiled over into what would become known as the American Civil War. It was Lincoln, who through his asserted will, personal charisma, and perceptive intelligence, led the Northern Union states to a hard fought victory. 620,000 men died in the Civil War, exceeding the nation’s losses of any other American war. Turbulent moments often leave their mark on time and some would say, they make an impression on the fabric of unseen space, the ether of the world between the living and the dead.