Is there a list of the best Lincoln Assassination Consp. books for our library?

[Troy Cowan]

(05-27-2013 12:15 PM)Gene C Wrote:  I disagree Bill. While Stanton may have had his minor faults, I think he admired Lincoln to much (in spite of disagreeing with him) to take the drastic step of conspiring to kill Lincoln. If he was going to want anyone out of the way, it would have been McClellan. Of coarse most of what I know about Stanton is from Benjamin Thomas

Gene
Stanton considered Lincoln uncouth, awkward, and ignorant. He once said that Du Chaillu was a fool to go to Africa to look for gorillas when he might have got an excellent specimen in Springfield, Illinois. (John Spencer Bassett, Abraham Lincoln, p5)

Stanton also said that "no one in Washington had any respect for him, had not even faith in his candor and sincerity." Henry Whitney, Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p7)

Stanton slowed recruiting, interfered with the delivery of supplies and hampered the movement of reinforcements. General McCellan said that Stanton "unnecessarily prolonged the war at least two years and at least tripled its cost in blood and treasure. (George B. McCellan, McClellan's own story, p229)