Lincoln's autocrat

[RJNorton]

(11-04-2017 12:24 PM)kerry Wrote:  I recently did a bunch of newspaper research about the assassination, and no one mentions Stanton saying Lincoln belonged to the ages. There are some very detailed accounts, and they all say there was silence and then Gurley was asked to say a prayer by Stanton and was barely able to do so. That definitely seems like an embellishment added later. The first mention I see of it is in Hay and Nicolay's biography, in 1890.

Several years ago we had an extensive discussion of this issue here.