Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth Gettysburg Mugs They are both too close

They are both too close to the Confederate capital of Richmond and key waterways not to be a target of the invading Union army

and decides to write poetry

we are haunted by the Civil War―by its division

the second phase of the campaign

Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth Gettysburg Mugs They are both too closeby Terry Alford (Author) With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking for no one