Original Lincoln document found
I ask you, is there really any significance to the discovery of this letter?
The following story was found on Yahoo! News.
Original Lincoln document found
By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 8, 9:18 AM ET
WASHINGTON - The National Archives has unveiled a handwritten note by Abraham Lincoln exhorting his generals to pursue Robert E. Lee's army after the battle of Gettysburg, underscoring one of the great missed opportunities for an early end to the Civil War.
An archives Civil War specialist discovered the July 7, 1863, note three weeks ago in a batch of military papers stored among the billions of pages of historical documents at the mammoth building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The text of Lincoln's note has been publicly known because the general to whom Lincoln addressed it telegraphed the contents verbatim to the front lines at Gettysburg. There, the Union army's leaders failed for more than a week to aggressively pursue Lee following his defeat.
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I personally find this only mildly interesting. But I'm wondering what the rest of you think?
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I have to agree with you
I have to agree with you mike, that it has nothing but more of the same stuff that was already known, but To find some letter like that stuffed away in a stack gives the finder hope that we may yet find that glimmering piece of evidence that we knew nothing about...........
Seamus
Cogito sumere potum alterum