Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) hospital sought out quacks and spiritualists

sought out quacks and spiritualists as cult memberships grew

They were pursued by all the white people in the area

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

The corps’ veterans called their service a “geography class

Here for the first time

Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (Jon Grinspan-CH) hospital sought out quacks and spiritualistsby 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.