the normal way to start off a panel is to let each of the panelists have an opportunity to comment on what they have heard each other say. before we go to general questions, does anybody want to comment on anybody else s talk before we turn to the questions from the audience? well, it s, i think, pretty clear from john s talk that john and i have a little bit of a different take on a couple of things. but here is one of the things that i will argue. sure. i don t think that the soldiers becoming republicans or how they voted is hol wholly to down. i think it s more of a bottom up experience. sheer what i think happens. here is my theory on this. is that the 1862 election does not go well for republicans, but it goes very well for copperheads. by that time, i think that is a wake-up call for the soldiers that this group that has been railing against the war and against lincoln, rather than being this fringe group that i think the soldiers and many other people had rega
inauguration. she comes back and she s disappointed in lincoln. by the 1865 inaugural, she s singing his praises. she s one of the most eloquent of all and intelligent and thoughtful of all the abolitionists, male and female. that s a good point. thanks for pointing that out. i thank you for your attention. this weekend, we continue our four-day book tv and american history tv programming. saturday at 10:00 eastern on book tv s afterwards, the history of the birth control pill and sunday at 11:00, bill nye the science guy. and an american history tv on cspan 3, saturday night, just before 9:00, george washington and benedict arnold and sunday afternoon at 4:00, a glimpse of american life between 1914 to 1930 from henry ford s film collection. find our complete schedule at cspan.org or call us. e-mail us or send us a tweet. like us op facebook. follow us on twitter. next, authors and historians discuss the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election that took