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10-08-2020, 11:14 AM
Post: #3691
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Excellent, David. Indeed it was General William T. Sherman. My source for the quote: Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer, p. 157.
Kudos, David. |
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10-08-2020, 11:27 AM
Post: #3692
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-08-2020 11:14 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Excellent, David. Indeed it was General William T. Sherman. My source for the quote: Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer, p. 157. The quotation is from one of my favorite sections in Team of Rivals. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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10-09-2020, 06:41 AM
Post: #3693
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
No googling, please.
What is the name of the person who noted the following about President Lincoln? "This man’s appearance, his pedigree, his low coarse jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, his frivolity, are a disgrace to the seat he holds." |
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10-09-2020, 07:08 AM
Post: #3694
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Salmon Chase?
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10-09-2020, 08:34 AM
Post: #3695
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am sorry, Mike, but it wasn't Chase.
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10-09-2020, 10:46 AM
Post: #3696
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Just a guess, George McClellan ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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10-09-2020, 10:46 AM
Post: #3697
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
While it sounds like something Stanton might have said, I don't think that's the answer. To me, it smacks of something a southerner would have said. Wild guess, but Jefferson Davis?
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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10-09-2020, 11:14 AM
Post: #3698
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am sorry, Gene and Rob, but it's not McClellan or Davis.
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10-09-2020, 12:38 PM
Post: #3699
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Sticking with my theory that it's a southerner, how about Mary Chesnut?
Best Rob Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom. --Ida M. Tarbell
I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent. --Carl Sandburg
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10-09-2020, 12:57 PM
Post: #3700
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am sorry, Rob, it was not Mary Chesnut.
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10-09-2020, 01:23 PM
Post: #3701
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RE: The Study of Lincoln...
(10-06-2020 09:37 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Upon my retirement from Community Mental Health two years ago- my patients gave me a surprise party. Among the gifts was a beautiful Lincoln statue for my office desk at home. I was deeply touched. It seems I did get through to some people with my answers to their inquires on Mr. Lincoln. For that I am so grateful. that's great! |
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10-09-2020, 03:37 PM
Post: #3702
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am thinking it's an early quote of Edwin Stanton, before he came to know Lincoln.
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10-09-2020, 10:37 PM
Post: #3703
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Harriet Lane?
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10-10-2020, 03:50 AM
Post: #3704
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
I am sorry, Dennis and Susan, but it's not Edwin Stanton or Harriet Lane.
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10-10-2020, 04:38 AM
Post: #3705
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Charles Sumner
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