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Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 26 Dec 2024 04:53:16
Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay

Michael Burlingame, "Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay"
English | ISBN: 0809322625 | | 416 pages | PDF | 21 MB

On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that "some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world."
The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a "harrowing communication," Hay continued his entry: "They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché. I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned."




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