Did William Coggeshall Save Lincoln's Life?

[John Fazio]

(10-02-2016 01:47 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  John, I would be more inclined to believe the grenade story if I could find evidence of any of the other Lincoln-related claims made by Coggeshall. If he were really important enough to be invited to attend Cabinet meetings, wouldn't this be mentioned in at least one of the 15,000+ Abraham Lincoln books (not counting Koch's)?

Regarding the claim that Coggeshall said to Lincoln, "Come with me to Washington and I shall go safely"....the Fehrenbachers thought so little of Coggeshall's veracity that they did not even include him in their book Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln.

Roger:

Good points, as usual. Of course, neither of us has read all 15,000 books, nor will we. As for the Fehrenbachers, they may not have known of Freda Postle Koch's revelation in 1985, inasmuch as it was a self-published book that had very limited circulation. Then again, maybe they did know of it and felt there wasn't enough evidence to support Mary's story. The book came to my attention only because I met a woman in Lakeside, Ohio, ten or 12 years ago, who knew the author and her husband well and who, when she found out I was a CW buff, sent me an inscribed copy.

Please see my most recent message to Laurie (today) re Chase's Diary.

More later, after I have checked the Ohio Historical Society.

John