Extra Credit Questions

[Eva Elisabeth]

Brilliant, Laurie! The bishop and chatterbox was Sumner. This is the entire quote as reported by Benjamin Perley Poore:

"Sumner declined to stand up with me, back to back, to see which was the tallest man, and made a fine speech about being the time for uniting our fronts against the enemy and not our backs. But I guess he was afraid to measure, though he is a good piece of a man. I never had much to do with bishops where I live, but, do you know, Sumner is my idea of a bishop." (Allen Thorndike Rice [ed.]:"Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln")