[4CJ]

If Butler had such a conversation with president Lincoln there should be something in the record to corroborate that. I haven't seen such.

Butler's accounting of the conversation is documented. Have you read EVERY Book every published on the subject? Every broadside?

[WhiskeyPapa]

If Butler had such a conversation with president Lincoln there should be something in the record to corroborate that. I haven't seen such.

Butler's accounting of the conversation is documented. Have you read EVERY Book every published on the subject?

More books have been written on Abraham Lincoln than any other subject in American history. Surely, just a --mention-- that Butler met with Lincoln in say, the first two weeks of February,1865 from someone other than Butler is not too much to ask?

The Kunhardt illustrated bio of Lincoln breaks his down his administration month by month. The listings are by no means exhaustive, but there is no mention of this meeting, there is no mention in Oates' bio or in Donald's bio.

If such a meeting took place, someone, sometime, made note of it. So far, the only documentation we have is from Butler the office seeker, writing 27 years later.

Walt