In March of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what is easily the most famous inaugural speech in United States history. He was re-elected only a few months earlier and the civil war was just about over. The nation’s people were wondering what would come yet and how would the rebel stage rejoin the union and what would become of the former slaves. People assumed that Lincoln would answer these tricky questions and expected a blue print for the next four years just as what they received from his first inaugural speech. What they received however was quite the opposite. Lincoln begins by speaking directly about his first inaugural address and then recognizes what tragedy the Civil War has brought. Before directly confronting the nation
