Who is this person?

[David Lockmiller]

(12-14-2020 04:43 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  David, since you don't seem to be saying that we cannot research this person via Google I went ahead and did so. My new answer is Donn Piatt.

http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/resi...1819-1891/

You are absolutely correct, Roger.

I followed your hyperlink and read as much as I could before I had to stop at this point:

"Piatt had tried to push the process along in Maryland (prematurely, in Lincoln’s view)."

Donn Piatt himself wrote in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, Chapter XXVIII, page 496: "My one act made Maryland a free State."

The trivia question provides President Lincoln's opinion of this [premature] effort: "I never saw him angry but once, and I had no wish to see a second exhibition of his wrath." (Reminiscences, page 494.)

"I do not care to recall the words of Mr. Lincoln. I wrote them out that night, for I was threatened a shameful dismissal from the service, and I intended appealing to the public. They were exceedingly severe, for the President was in a rage. I was not allowed a word in my own defense, and was only permitted to say that I would countermand my order as well as I could. I was saved cashiering through the interference of Stanton and Chase, and the further fact that a row over such a transaction at that time would have been extremely awkward." (Reminiscences, page 496.)