A freed black man writes to his still-enslaved wife , a mother pleads with Abraham Lincoln on behalf of her son and a maimed soldier poses for an official photograph in newly reopened records that bring the U.S. Civil War back to life .
<response> A freed black man writes to his still-enslaved wife , a mother pleads with <person>Abraham Lincoln</person> on behalf of her son and a maimed soldier poses for an official photograph in newly reopened records that bring the <misc>U.S. Civil War</misc> back to life . </response>