Extra Credit Questions

[Dennis Urban]

(10-04-2020 04:50 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Nope, not a Hanks, Michael. Congratulations, Dennis - indeed it was Sojourner Truth. She visited the White House and saw President Lincoln on October 29, 1864. This would have been 11 days before the 1864 presidential election.

My source for the quote: Lincoln as I Knew Him: Gossip, Tributes, and Revelations from His Best Friends and Worst Enemies edited by Harold Holzer, p. 201.

Just for the record, I did not look up the quote. Good memory still prevails in an old man. Dennis.