There are three blog entries about Abraham Lincoln on my today's Cooter's History Thing Blog at http://cootershistorything.blogspot.com.
One was about the photograph was was just recently discovered of Lincoln in front of the White House shortly before his assassination, or, was it Lincoln?
It was found in a photo album owned by the general and in the current possession of the general's great-great grandson, Ulysses S. Grant, VI, who lives in Springfield, Missouri and runs a construction business. He sold the photo to a Lincoln photograph collector in New York City named Keya Morgan for $50,000. Times must be hard in the construction business. You think?
The second one was about the rumored existence of a message in Lincoln's pocket watch which, upon opening this last week, was true.
Then I wrote about visiting a traveling Lincoln exhibit and hearing the actual sounds Lincoln would have heard from a clock in his Springfield law office and one of Mary Todd Lincoln's music boxes.
After all, it IS the old guy's 200th anniversary of his birth.
It's a Lincoln Thing. You Wouldn't Understand. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
