(09-25-2016, 05:07 PM)RJNorton Wrote: (09-25-2016, 04:46 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: E.g. it could have been the Colonel felt a need to impress his wife with some heroic deeds. He wouldn't have been the first one, and not the first one in the Lincoln saga.
This is also my opinion. Some of the claims such as attending Cabinet meetings, special one-on-one meetings with individual Cabinet members, carrying (on horseback) vital messages from Lincoln to Union troops in Virginia, and a special private conference with Lincoln on assassination day seem IMO to more likely come from Coggeshall himself.
Wiki (no source though) reads: "He was a self-appointed bodyguard for Abraham Lincoln." So a self-appointed hero probably, too...
His wife wrote as for the secrectiveness: “Mr. Coggeshall asked him [Lincoln] not to mention it [the assassination attempt] to anyone for he felt that God’s hand had been laid upon them in a miraculous manner, and they had been close to the Gate leading to the upper world and it was too solemn for the world to discuss.”
Would that have Abraham Lincoln's words at that point in time? "Gate leading to the upper world"? "Too solemn to discuss"?
Did William Coggeshall Save Lincoln's Life?
