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I found real Abraham Lincoln!

They got the wrong man.

An animator and teacher at a North Carolina college says the man believed to be President Abraham Lincoln on horseback in a famed photo taken 150 years ago isn’t him.

Instead, the slain 16th President is actually farther to the right.

The “Where’s Waldo”-like discovery by Christopher Oakley, an assistant professor of new media at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, was revealed Tuesday. And his potentially historic find came completely by accident.

“I was actually looking for William Seward,” Lincoln’s Secretary of State, the 51-year-old told the Daily News....

Read entire article at New York Daily News