Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

I thought that the answer might be the following. It took me awhile to find the incident in Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals at pages 713-14:

A decade later, Sherman remained convinced of Lincoln's unapparelled leadership. "Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other."

Lincoln walked to the railroad station early the next morning to bid farewell to Grant, who was heading to the front for what they hoped would be the final offensive against Lee. Oppressed by thoughts of the expected battle, "Lincoln looked more serious than at any other time since he had visited headquarters," recalled Horace Porter; "the lines in his face seemed deeper, and the rings under his eyes were of a darker hue." As the train pulled away from the platform, Grant and his party tipped their hats in honor of the president. Returning the salute, his "voice broken by an emotion he could ill conceal," Lincoln said: "Good-by, gentlemen, God bless you all."

Of course, Roger, this may be the longest wrong answer that you have ever received to one of your trivia questions.