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The Deringer pistol used to kill Abraham Lincoln

The sword of war cut the nation in two. For four years, the blood flowed. In all, over 620,000 soldiers died. It is impossible to imagine all the pain and sorrow that came from the American Civil War.

Then finally, on April 9, 1865, the South surrendered to the North. Within weeks, the Civil War would be over. But death was still waiting for at least one man.

President Abraham Lincoln was thinking about the difficult t...