Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) Section - Gettysburg Timeline In a searing analysis of

In a searing analysis of the Civil War North as revealed in contemporary letters

In the century and a half since the Civil War

plus storyboards and rare images of Ward Hill Lamon

Location: Gettysburg Nature Alliance Barn by Sachs Bridge

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) Section - Gettysburg Timeline In a searing analysis ofby 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.