{"title":"Reconstruction","authors":"Brian Sneeden","doi":"10.1002/9783527809080.cataz14129","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"For the North, the war produced a still greater hero in Abraham Lincoln – a man eager, above all else, to weld the Union together again, not by force and repression but by warmth and generosity. In 1864 he had been elected for a second term as president, defeating his Democratic opponent, George McClellan, the general he had dismissed after Antietam. Lincoln's second inaugural [2] address closed with these words:","PeriodicalId":42372,"journal":{"name":"VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW","volume":"3 1","pages":"87 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2014-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527809080.cataz14129","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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For the North, the war produced a still greater hero in Abraham Lincoln – a man eager, above all else, to weld the Union together again, not by force and repression but by warmth and generosity. In 1864 he had been elected for a second term as president, defeating his Democratic opponent, George McClellan, the general he had dismissed after Antietam. Lincoln's second inaugural [2] address closed with these words:
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Though Charlottesville and Albemarle County were still on the fringes of the frontier when Thomas Jefferson founded his University of Virginia in 1819, he saw rising here nothing less than "a bulwark for the human mind in this hemisphere." In 1915, UVa president Edwin A. Alderman declared publicly that he was seeking to create a university publication that could be "an organ of liberal opinion . . . solidly based, thoughtfully and wisely managed and controlled, not seeking to give news, but to become a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men."