Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) hospital Shocked and hurt when he

Shocked and hurt when he was supplanted as the head of the Fifth Corps

during the famous “High Tide of the Confederacy: Pickett’s Charge

sought out quacks and spiritualists as cult memberships grew

Forts Henry and Donelson

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) hospital Shocked and hurt when heby Jon Grinspan Excellent." Wall Street Journal A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war. At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes.