A Bit of Levity re: O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln"

[BettyO]

It's been awhile since I read it, but I recall he referred to Lincoln's office as the Oval Office. There was no Oval Office at that time.

I love to pick out such errors - it's like Shaara's Gods and Generals....years ago, I was going to read it; however there were so many glaring historical errors, I just couldn't. The opening scenes in the book (circa about 1858) has Joshua Chamberlain repairing a "barbed wire fence" - in Maine! The first patent in the United States for barbed wire was issued in 1867 - and it was introduced primarily to keep cattle confined out west! Also in the book, the Shockoe area in Richmond was referred to as "Shockoe Slip" - a Yuppie term not utilized until the 1980s......

Don't you just love it?!