Then came the exhumation. The unmarked grave in Maryland, beneath a highway expansion that had been halted by protesters. The bones were those of a man in his early fifties, six-foot-four, with a bullet in his shoulder—a wound that matched a hunting accident young Lincoln had suffered in 1835. The man in the White House had no such wound.
The reporter frowned. “But the resolution passed today. That’s the official date.” when does lincoln get exonerated
“Be it resolved that the individual known as Abraham Lincoln, lawfully elected President of the United States in 1860, was unlawfully imprisoned and replaced by a surrogate in 1861. Be it further resolved that the true Abraham Lincoln is hereby exonerated of all false claims of madness or desertion—claims made solely to justify his imprisonment. Be it finally resolved that his name, his honor, and his legacy are restored.” Then came the exhumation
After the ceremony, a reporter asked her the same question she had asked a thousand times. But now the words came out different. The man in the White House had no such wound