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11-14-2023, 07:57 PM
Post: #481
RE: Who Said This?
Booth

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11-14-2023, 08:10 PM
Post: #482
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Yes, Joe! Good job. The source for this is Asia Booth Clarke's memoir (1938) published many years after her death (1888).
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04-11-2024, 06:01 PM
Post: #483
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No Googling, please. Who described Lincoln as "the queerest old cuss you ever saw"?

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04-11-2024, 07:07 PM
Post: #484
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John Nicolay?
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04-11-2024, 07:41 PM
Post: #485
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That's a negative, PMOTI. Please come back and try again......

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04-12-2024, 03:25 AM
Post: #486
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I suppose someone who was much younger? A soldier?
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04-12-2024, 04:56 AM
Post: #487
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Seward? ( in earlier years)

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04-12-2024, 06:40 AM (This post was last modified: 04-12-2024 06:41 AM by J. Beckert.)
Post: #488
RE: Who Said This?
Dr. Eva is the closest so far! This person was younger, but was not yet a soldier. That came later.

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04-12-2024, 07:58 AM
Post: #489
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Was it Robert Lincoln?
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04-12-2024, 10:02 AM (This post was last modified: 04-12-2024 10:02 AM by J. Beckert.)
Post: #490
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Yes it was, Roger! Great job. During a hazing while attending his first year at Harvard, Robert was asked about his then presidential candidate father and that's how he described him.

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04-28-2024, 05:24 AM (This post was last modified: 04-28-2024 06:12 AM by AussieMick.)
Post: #491
RE: Who Said This?
Who described Lincoln thus ... 'a man of very small account in every way'

googling is ok

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04-28-2024, 07:11 AM
Post: #492
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He was not born in the USA

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04-28-2024, 02:30 PM
Post: #493
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He was a journalist and activist with 2 sons in the Confederate army.

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04-28-2024, 04:28 PM
Post: #494
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He wasn't born there, but he came from Van Diemen's Land

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04-28-2024, 04:58 PM
Post: #495
RE: Who Said This?
Well, according to my Google search, the answer appears to be John Mitchel. However, I would be lying if I said I had any idea who he was other than what I read online.

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