(02-01-2018, 09:15 AM)Gene C Wrote: What would Lincoln do?
Likely the same thing he did during the Treasury Scandal of 1864.
Disclaimer: I have not fully read the attached links, I am unfamiliar with Project Muse, or the book being reviewed (The Enemy Within) .
If you have some knowledge about this, please share.
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/499088 (Book Review)
more about the book from Project Muse
http://muse.jhu.edu/book/11072
Amazon site for the book - The Enemy Within
https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Within-Corr...omas+smith
Looks like this could be an interesting book.
Gene, I would suggest going
here.
I read some of this and the conclusion seems to be that this was "a tempest in a teapot." Read pages 97-99 of Michael Thomas Smith's book, "The Enemy Within," as I did.
President Lincoln would have liked that this Chapter 4 began with a quotation from Shakespeare:
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell.
-- Henry VI, part 2
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch