word appomattox as any other place, name in the civil war getty certainly as much as at least asurning p gettysberg or vicksburg or other major turning points in the war. this meant the beginning of one g new world anhad end of another. something was over. something new begun. now, on november 5th 2008, president obama elected election president, on the morning after that election, he wrote a columndr called unfinished business drawing lincoln from lincoln's address there, but the opening sentence of freedman's column of course, what they do they stay up all night to write a topic instance, and the rest takes care of itself, but the sentence was basically it said last night grant park, chicago illinois, united states of america, the american civil war ended. then he went on to use the fact sylvan thatia pennsylvania had been the state that had put lincoln over the top in the electoral that as college, and he misused all of that as he went on with the s friedm column, but what was he doing this? understandably, what was doing?was tr i think what he wasyi trying to represent was this urge that we l h