Surratt Society Meeting and "Conference" 2021

[RJNorton]

Very interesting, Steve. If I am keeping track correctly that makes 5 people in the room whose 1865 accounts do not include Stanton saying anything about ages or angels (Leale, Tanner, Welles, Taft, Field). Maybe Scott has found more. (Scott, I wish I had recorded your talk for reference, but it was my first Zoom conference ever, and I didn't really know how to use the software's capabilities.)

In the Hay-Nicolay biography I believe Hay writes that there was total silence in the room after the President passed. And the silence was broken by Stanton saying "Now he belongs to the ages." I continue to be surprised that none of the 1865 accounts say anything about this.