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But Reconstruction policy, of course, began during the war.
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The debates over Reconstruction policy began during the war.
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Well sorry, I had Herman Melville's poem here
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but what did I do with Herman Melville?
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Forgive me. "Check that,"
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as the old sports announcer used to say.
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The policies on Reconstruction took two paths,
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and those paths begin as early as late 1863,
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and they are especially being debated
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in the federal government in 1864,
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and they are ripe by the end of the war in 1865.
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Lincoln's basic approach to Reconstruction,