Once again Walt that is a falsehood and you are a liar. The meeting between Butler and Lincoln was scheduled in writing by Lincoln's secretary John Hay.
From the index of Routine Correspondences for 1865 in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Volume 8, edited by Roy Basler, page 588:
"Apr. 10. To Benjamin F. Butler, Hay for Lincoln, making appointment for ``tomorrow,''"
Butler's meeting is corroborated in the scheduling by Lincoln's own secretary. Live with it.
"Apr. 10. To Benjamin F. Butler, Hay for Lincoln, making appointment for ``tomorrow,''"
LOL, I bet he still denies it, GOP. He'll probably post something about how 'The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln' is -not- a -valid- source on Lincoln.
Nice of you to find the evidence to support Butler though. In any case, Butler, as an acting major general, was in an extremely important and valuable position, and his accounts cite several meetings on the topic. There is no reason they would not have seen each other at any time, appointments or not.
Once again Walt that is a falsehood and you are a liar. The meeting between Butler and Lincoln was scheduled in writing by Lincoln's secretary John Hay.
Well, that's a mighty puny "Aha!" Where's the report of the meeting -after- it took place? Where can we see such a document say, written between 1865 and 1891?
You say they were scheduled to meet. There is no record by a third party that they ever -did- meet.
This is surely the most ridiculous exercise in pedantic nonsense ever indulged in.
You can't prove the President and Butler ever even met in this time frame. Butler's single statement 25 years later simply does not meet the criteria needed to add it to a viable historical interpretation.
Walt