[PeaRidge]

Contrary to your prostrations that history does not tell us about Talbot, you can find all the answers that you say do not exist right here:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:505?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

That information is from Lincoln’s collected works.

You can easily find the same in the Official Records of the war.

You are exerting a lot of energy trying to make a difference into a distinction that neither is relevant nor real.

[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "Contrary to your prostrations that history does not tell us about Talbot, you can find all the answers that you say do not exist right here: "

Thanks so much for that link.
I've saved it for future reference.

PeaRidge: "You are exerting a lot of energy trying to make a difference into a distinction that neither is relevant nor real."

You are exerting a lot of energy trying to make a difference into a distinction that neither is relevant nor real.