[RedMonqey]

... winners write the histories and the losers write the myths...

I give you credit for being half right.

Which "loser" wrote about Lincoln Lincoln writing the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope...or that young Abraham Lincoln wrote his homework with a lump of coal on the back of a shovel.....

Guess them wily Confederates outfoxed them thar historians, eh?

[Non-Sequitur]

Which "loser" wrote about Lincoln Lincoln writing the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope...or that young Abraham Lincoln wrote his homework with a lump of coal on the back of a shovel.....

That was Carl Sandburg. His biography of Lincoln was...colorful to say the least. Not quite as colorful as a lot of the myths out there about Lee or Jackson or Forrest, but close.