The 16th president’s unusual face evolved from an object of ridicule to an American icon that epitomized our Civil War ordeal. The German-born reformer Carl Schurz never forgot his first glimpse of Abraham Lincoln. It was 1858—the year of the great Illinois Senate debates between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. Schurz was in the midst …
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