[WhiskeyPapa]

Once upon a time, Good Father Abraham called up 75,000 militia to suppress all of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America. He honestly expected that these 75,000 militia could finish this task in three months or less.

And a southerm senator said he would wipe up all the blood shed with one hankerchief.

President Lincoln said in a letter from 1864 that events had controlled him, not the other way around.

The day after the first battle of Bull Run, President Lincoln wrote down an outline of how to procecute the war, and the war did follow that outline.

Walt

[nolu chan]

[Wlat] President Lincoln said in a letter from 1864 that events had controlled him, not the other way around.

Yeah, he was talking about that emancipation thing and being Forced Into Glory. Of course, until the bitter end he had James Mitchell around, he was chatting ("I believe that it would be better to export them all") with Ben Butler about colonization, and reportedly had Dan Sickles off in Columbia working on colonization when he was assassinated.

From the ACW moderated forum:

An interesting point. I just finished "American Scoundrel" by Thomas Keneally and he writes about Lincoln sending Dan Sickles to, IIRC, Panama to negotiate several dealings. One of which was the possible establishment of a colony for freed slaves. In fact, Lincoln was assassinated while Sickles was on this trip. --------------- Keneally claims it was Colombia: "The President needed an emissary to go on government business to Panama and Colombia. Greater Colombia, or New Grenada, as the Federation of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama styled itself, formed one loose federal state ruled from the highland capital of Bogotá, Colombia. He was to leave by January with the purpose of persuading the Panamanian authorities to allow Union troops to cross the Isthmus of Panama, something they had recently prohibited. He was then to travel to Bogotá and raise, with the federal authorities there, the possibility of Colombia's offering a home to freed black slaves who were now pooling in Washington and in Northern cities." [Thomas Keneally, _American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles,_ p. 310]

[Wlat] The day after the first battle of Bull Run, President Lincoln wrote down an outline of how to procecute the war, and the war did follow that outline.

You mean you admit that he planned to keep the war going for four years?