Abraham Lincoln and the Latter-day Saints Part 2

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Abraham Lincoln and the Latter-day Saints Part 2

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In part two of our discussion of Abraham Lincoln and the Latter-day Saints we talk about Lincoln's election and the secession of the Confederate states and how the Saints in Utah reacted to the coming of the Civil War.
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