As a newspaper man and a regular public speaker on political issues it is highly likely that he was better versed in the events of the war than your average citizen. Same goes for Horace Greeley who corroborated Douglass' comments about the black confederates.
It has become obvious that you were there and recorded the entire war. Any time now I fully expect Walt to cut and paste the transcript from the AOL moderated forum.
George Carlin will then appear as Rufus and take you on a most excellent adventure via a magic phone booth to deliver the transcript to Frederick Douglass.