"St. Abe" mythology was on the tube last night. It started with Bennett - looked like a great show, but after 4 minutes it was all back to Sainthood. Killed on Good Friday, but they left off the resurrection. </sarcasm>
Don't you know? Saint Abe didn't really die. He's just sleeping under a mountain in a room with King Arthur and the Imam Mahdi, waiting for the day that the Union needs his salvation again.
Heretic!
How can you say such a thing? Ever since Dr. Farber published his scholarly work, everyone knows that St. Abe was shot on April 12, 1865. That was a Wednesday. Will you at least try to remember your liberal troll history?
Daniel Farber, Lincoln's Constitution, 2003, Chapter 1, page 8:
The Civil War began in the chilly morning hours of April 12, 1861, when a Confederate battery opened fire on Fort Sumter.* * *
The early morning shots of April 12 began the bloodiest war in American history. It was four years to the day later when Major Anderson ran the U.S. flag back up at sumter. In the meantime, the world had forever changed. "By then," in the words of a leading historian, "[s]lavery was dead; secession was dead; and six hundred thousand men were dead." "That," he added, "was the basic balance sheet of the sectional conflict."
Later that same day, April 12, 1865, yet another price was added to that balance sheet. As the war had begun with the death of a single individual, so it would end. That evening, just about the time Major Anderson toasted the president of the United States, John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theater. By the next morning, Lincoln was dead."
Members in good standing of the Lincoln-haters Club of Free Republic.