Comments on: Thirteen Possibly Obscure Facts About Abraham Lincoln, 14th

By: karina

karina — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:01:05 +0000

i like you like my president because you free the slave

By: karina

karina — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:58:42 +0000

please you are cool

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:39:56 +0000

As a Canadian, I haven’t really studied American History so I find lists like these FASCINATING – thanks for sharing. He has certainly become “larger than life” in his depictions, especially in Hollywoodland!

Thanks for stopping by – XINE

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:46:55 +0000

He must have been one hell of a character…

By: J. Lynne

J. Lynne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:06:21 +0000

Nicholas — Before the Civil War, Lee was a West Point graduate at the top of his class, he was Captain of the Army Corp of Engineers for 25 years, he fought in the Mexican-American War, was Superintendent at West Point, was in the 2nd U.S. Calvary regiment, captured John Brown in Kansas, and had been appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Cavalry by Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of the Civil War.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Lee believed that the states seceding from the Union were committing acts of rebellion. However, he resigned his post in the U.S. Army and returned to Virginia only after Virginia joined the original Confederate States, which happened because Virginia said it wouldn’t secede from the Union but it wouldn’t be used to fight against the states that did and Lincoln not only demanded troops from them but indicated that they were going to be marched through. Lee returned to his home-state to defend it, the place where generations of his family had lived, where his wife (the great-grand-daughter of Martha Washington) and children lived, where his house was — which is now Arlington Cemetery, by the way. He was never about the politics.

Robert E. Lee is considered by many historians as one of the great tactical geniuses of all time.

Btw, the Civil War was a very conflicted time. Lincoln’s wife’s own brothers fought for the Confederacy. Image the field day the media would have with something like that in this day and age.

By: J. Lynne

J. Lynne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:46:04 +0000

I don’t think Lincoln’s parentage is in question — Nancy Hanks Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln from Virginia. He was their second child — the first was a daughter named Sarah. Plus, he was named after his paternal grandfather.

By: SJ Reidhead

SJ Reidhead — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:05:00 +0000

What about the fact that he was John C. Calhoun’s illig. son?

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By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:47:42 +0000

I’ve always thought that he was the greatest President. I can’t agreee with you about Lee or Davis, since they sought to preserve a system that held human beings as property, to be sold, abused, flogged and even killed with impugnity. There was nothing noble about that.

By: Mama Pajama

Mama Pajama — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:40:06 +0000

I learned lots of new information about Honest Abe. Great post!

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